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).
Urgently requesting details on modifications and parts for steering, aero, and oil relay systems.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 65\1\ scan0173 | |
| Date | 1st August 1926 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} XP685 X8430 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/LG9. 8. 26. We are urgently requiring the following details and should be obliged if you could expedite them as far as possible. STEERING. Modified cross steering tube recently detailed by the D.O. (Expl. job only). Castor pivots. Pivots to give vertical king pin and centre point with disc-wheels. Pivots with roller bearing at the top. New type front axle. BY's coupled inertia-damper latest scheme. AERO. Adaptor to fit on Condor relief valve (sketches handed over about July 20th.) OIL RELAY. A second complete relay to LeC.2242. RB{R. Bowen}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Also we are anxious to obtain the unit testing rig as soon as possible as we have a number of experiments which are held up until this is running. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||