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).
Inquiry to Salisbury Axle Company Ltd. regarding the supply of a modified axle and the possibility of importing others.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\1\ scan0324 | |
| Date | 1st January 1941 | |
| Copy to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} & Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} 1015 EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}/DB.{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}1/ET. 1st January, 1941. Salisbury Axle Company Ltd., Birch Road, Witton, BIRMINGHAM 6. For the attention of Mr. J.A. Daniell. Dear Sirs, We would like to know whether it is possible for you to supply an axle which has a central casing as your drawing HA/001/2, HA/001/5, but which has a different track and spring track and different type of tube outer end. PL.372, a print of which is enclosed, shows the tube end and track dimensions, while PL.370, also enclosed, shows the spring brackets required to be welded to the tubes, the actual spring track being 40". There would also be a further bracket welded to the O.S. tube for the brake equaliser support, but at the moment we cannot give full particulars of that. Your letter of Oct. 18th, 1939, the last I can trace on the subject, suggests that variations from your actual drawing would require importation of further axles from the States. Can you say whether this still applies, and if so whether there is any possibility of obtaining an axle such as we require in the reasonably near future? If there is such a possibility, we can let you have detail drawings to work to of the dimensions that affect us for the mating parts, in the course of a few days. The ratio required is 4.68 to 1. Yours faithfully, Chassis Design Dept. | ||