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).
Urgent internal memo requesting modifications to a dynamo drive and connection shaft for a Wraith III gear wear trial.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 108\2\ scan0110 | |
| Date | 20th June 1938 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} γ 600 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}6/MH.{M. Huckerby}20.6.38. WRAITH III (URGENT). Will you please produce the following pieces as soon as possible for trial in connection with gear wear on the above. (1) Taking a standard dynamo drive EW.878 increase the internal bore to .593 dia. (2) Produce a new connection shaft as EW.877 but .562 dia. in place of the present .400 dia. The above is very urgent and information required as possibility of preventing gear wear. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||