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 prepare a new cross steering tube for vehicle 8.B.V. following an accident in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 97\4\ scan0283 | |
| Date | 4th January 1939 | |
| 4006 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}8/JH.4.1.39. 8.B.V. Steering. We have received a telegram from France to the effect that one of the cross steering tubes of 8.B.V. has been bent as the result of a slight accident. The tube has been straightened temporarily. Will you please prepare a new tube which we can take with us when we go to France on Thursday 5th. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} | ||