From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Requesting the production of 12 metal bearings for a Leyland engine to be fitted to rods.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 116\3\ scan0039 | |
| Date | 28th September 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews} X 1020 a Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews}5/MH.{M. Huckerby}28.9.37. HALL'S METAL BEARINGS.(LEYLAND'S) Will you please produce with the least possible delay 12 bearings (in AC.6 alloy) to the attached sketch BV.125, these bearings are for Leyland engine and we shall be receiving the rods during the course of the next day or so. We should like you to fit the bearings to the rods when they are received. The bore of the bearings is not the finished size, Leyland's are going to finally bore them to suit the crankpins. All time and material for this job should be booked to order number 54110. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews} | ||