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 responding to a request for axle gears, suggesting Packard or Cadillac assemblies as alternatives for inspection due to the enclosed nature of the Rolls-Royce design.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 145\2\ scan0162 | |
| Date | 25th August 1937 | |
| /23/ August 25th 1937 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}1/AP. E.A.Evans Esq., Messrs C.C.Wakefield & Co.Ltd., Research Department, Hayes, MIDDLESEX Dear Mr.Evans, Mr.Hives has handed on your letter to us. We are arranging to send you a mutilated pair of axle gears. We do not think a complete axle centre would be of much use. Probably you know that in the Rolls-Royce construction when the gears are assembled, the whole case is enclosed and it is impossible to see what is happening inside. We suggest you try and borrow a Packard or Cadillac assembly from Leonard Williams and Lendrum & Hartman respectively. These are both of the kind in which the gears are assembled in an open frame work and subsequently inserted into the banjo case. Yours sincerely. | ||