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 repair a big end bearing on a Bentley Unit due to metal fatigue.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 133\1\ scan0091 | |
| Date | 15th August 1936 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X 1129 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Ed.{J. L. Edwards}16/JH.15.8.36. S/C Bentley Unit. Will you please repair the big end bearing on the above unit by a Hall's metal bearing, as the existing white-metal has fatigued. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} L. Edwards. | ||