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).
Production and sub-letting of die-cast torque converters for land vehicles and post-war projects.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\2\ scan0394 | |
| Date | 28th February 1944 | |
| 1153 To: Vs.{J. Vickers} (Glasgow) from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 12/h.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} 28.2.44. As you probably know, there is a big swing towards torque converters on land vehicles of all types, including buses and rail-cars. I am, at the moment, working with a firm developing the most promising of these devices. They are particularly anxious to find an economical way of producing this converter and, in fact, I am sure would be only too glad to sub-let the job, if they could find anyone who would undertake the work for them on a commercial basis. It seems to me that this converter lends itself admirably to being die-cast in light alloy and that this might amount to a reasonable quantity of post-war business. If you are interested, I could let you have drawings and a sample, and then if you were of the opinion that you could successfully tackle the job, I could approach Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} and we might get some prototypes produced, if he agrees. We have a post-war project to cover such work since we have a contract for making some Carriers, which may well finish up with this type of transmission. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||