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).
Request to detail an aluminium fan pulley and hub for a car undergoing a 15,000-mile test in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\4\ scan0028 | |
| Date | 19th September 1938 | |
| 4006 To By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.3/MH.{M. Huckerby}19.9.38. Will you please detail for us as soon as possible a fan pulley similar to EXS.924, and fan hub similar to EXS. 923 but in aluminium, of a suitable die casting alloy, and strengthened where the change of material makes this necessary. We wish these to be sent out to France to be fitted to S.B.V. car while it is running its 15,000 miles test, if it is not possible to fit them before. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. | ||