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 to try a Hoffman bearing N.2583 in a Bentley rear axle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\4\ scan0138 | |
| Date | 29th December 1936 | |
| 228 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}4/AP.29.12.36. 1.B.1V. By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} has asked us to try the attached bearing N.2583 made by Hoffman, in a Bentley rear axle. Will you please fit this to 1.B.1V. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||