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).
Confirming a request for big end oil flow tests on a Bentley crankshaft.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\5\ scan0099 | |
| Date | 12th July 1935 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/W.Bell: (x21) Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}14/KW.12.7.35. Big End Oil Flow Tests. This is to confirm our conversation asking you to determine the oil flow to the big end of a Bentley crankshaft running at 4500 r.p.m. If you will give us a sketch of where to cut up a scrap crankshaft to suit plummer blocks available, we will arrange with RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} accordingly. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||