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 creation of gauges to measure the pre-load on pinion bearings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\4\ scan0251 | |
| Date | 24th June 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} 20~ Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}14/AP.24.6.37 In connection with our visit to Ransome & Marles the other day, will you please make a couple of gauges to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}399 to enable us to measure the pre-load on pinion bearings. It is essential that the two faces of the gauge should be absolutely parallel. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||