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 send two new departure ball bearings for destructive testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\2\ scan0002 | |
| Date | 10th January 1934 | |
| To RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/EM. X3807 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}6/KW10.1.34. Will you please send two new departure Ball Bearings, G.54629, to Messrs. Ransome [Rapson struck out] & Marles of Newark, marked for the attention of Mr. Hickling. These bearings will be tested to destruction, and should be booked to Order No. 54307. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Grylls. | ||