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).
Letter from Hardy Spicer & Co. Ltd. regarding the re-machining of a shaft.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 87\3\ scan0036 | |
| Date | 13th August 1935 | |
| ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY. Telegrams & Cables: 'AUTOJOINTS, BIRMINGHAM'. Code: BENTLEY'S PHRAZE. Telephone: BIRCHFIELDS 4504/8 (5 LINES). Hardy Spicer & Co. Limited. Registered Offices and Works: Birch Road, Witton, Birmingham, 6. Manufacturers & Patentees of THE SPICER UNIVERSAL JOINTS & PROPELLER SHAFTS. Manufacturers & Patentees of THE HARDY FLEXIBLE COUPLINGS & PROPELLER SHAFTS. Manufacturers & Patentees of THE BRITISH BOUND BROOK OIL-LESS BEARINGS. Manufacturers & Patentees of COMPO OIL RETAINING BEARINGS. Our Reference JAD/MH.{M. Huckerby} Your Reference Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} 17/KW. August 13th.1935. Messrs.Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, We thank you for yours of the 7th instant. We should certainly like to see the Shaft that has done 12,000 miles in France, but we should not expect to find anything requiring attention on such a mileage. Apart from this, we gather the special yokes are still to be used, so we shall not be able to fit our own lighter type. We can re-machine the solid ended Shaft, and the fixed joint at the tube spigot, and save approximately 3 1/2 lbs and this we should offer to do now as soon as the shaft is received by us. We therefore, look forward to it. Will you please let us know the approximate date you require its return. Yours faithfully, p.p. Hardy Spicer & Co.,Ltd., J.A. Daniell Director. | ||