Status update memo on the progress of various gearboxes, valves, shafts, and engine units.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 161a\3\ scan0069 | |
| Date | 20th March 1939 | |
| -3- HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /WSC. {W. S. Cassel} 1/BA.20.3.39. MISCELLANEOUS. B.V. Gearboxes - All Helical. Instructions have now been issued for 6 Gearbox Castings, further details are being urged. The second Motion Shaft CB.4817 was instructed 16.3.39. Sodium Filled Exhaust Valves. HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} stated that AG. was to urge the completion of the B.V. Salt Cooled exhaust Valves EX.S.1388. If necessary they are to be brought into the shop to be completed. Torsional Indicator Shafts B.60 and B.80. HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} instructed RB. {R. Bowen} to work the necessary overtime to complete detailing of these as they are now urgently required. Machining to be completed as soon as possible. ENGINES. Bentley 'S' B.19 Unit. This unit is now fitted in the Paulin Bentley Car and renumbered L.9.BC. B.80.No.1 Unit. Allocated for 11.B.V. engine now being assembled in accordance with HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /WSC. {W. S. Cassel} 4/BA.7.3.39. B.80.No.2.Unit. On the Test Bed. B.80.No.3.Unit. On the Test Bed. continued. | ||
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).