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 details for a stiffened front mounting plate for an experimental 8-cylinder unit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 124\1\ scan0191 | |
| Date | 6th July 1939 | |
| 1044 γ To By/NS.{Norman Scott} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} c. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} c. By/CS. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}1/MH.{M. Huckerby}6.7.39. "CONVENTIONAL" UNIT (8-CYL.) One of the above type of units is being made experimentally and in line with the modification found necessary on B.80 unit, will you please issue details for a stiffened front mounting plate. The extent of the modification on the B.80 unit was to increase the plate thickness from .144" to .170" and this should be repeated on the "Conventional 8". Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||