The failure of a mild steel exhaust downtake pipe for the Wraith model, instructing a change to staybrite steel and inquiring about other suitable materials.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\8\ 08-page33 | |
| Date | 5th March 1938 | |
| 623 Wymn File BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /Mtn8/N.5.3.38. Wraith - Exhaust downtake pipe. Noted Gord ? Referring to your memo Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} 6/JH.3.3.38. and Waller's report of the mild steel downtake pipe failing on 26-G-VI. we are instructing staybrite for the 100 sets. We have written to the English Steel Corp: to ascertain if they have a steel which would be suitable without having to go to the expensive austenitic steel. BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /Mtn. | ||
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).