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 place an official order with Ransome & Marles Bearing Co. for finishing, supplying, and grinding various bearing components for a 25/30 HP model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 153\2\ scan0100 | |
| Date | 7th September 1936 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} ~1300 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}5/JH.7.9.36. Will you please send an Official Order to Messrs. Ransome & Marles Bearing Co., Newark-on-Trent, for the following :- (1) Finish grind 5 steering Rollers to our F.61282. (2) Finish grind 3 Inner races for above to our F.61284. (3) Supply 8 Inner races in their standard wall bearing steel to our F.61284. (4) Grind to length 5 distance pieces to our F.61286 to suit the above steering rollers. We supplied to them all the above parts except the 8 inner races under heading (2), when we visited Newark on 4.9.36. For use on 25/30 HP. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/J.H.Hardy. | ||