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 Hoffmann Manufacturing Co. for a roller bearing sample for a Bentley back axle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\4\ scan0316 | |
| Date | 26th October 1937 | |
| 202 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}7/MH.{M. Huckerby} 26th. October 1937. Messrs. The Hoffmann Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Chelmsford. Essex. For the attention of C.H.Smith, Esq. Dear Sirs, We wish to use experimentally one of your roller bearings No. R.135.L in a Bentley back axle in place of your R.135 bearing. Will you please send us one of these bearings by return post if possible, as we are urgently in need of it. An official order will follow in due course. Yours faithfully, for ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. | ||