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).
Requesting the despatch of 25/30 main bearing shells to the National Smelting Co. for metalling.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\1\ scan0233 | |
| Date | 29th December 1936 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} r 1020. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}14/AP.29.12.36. BENTLEY BEARINGS Will you please obtain and despatch to the National Smelting Co.Ltd., Avonmouth Factory, Avonmouth, a set of 25/30 main bearing shells which they are going to metal for us with a Cadmium-Nickel alloy. A set of Bentley main bearings to be made in A.C.2. and A.C.5.S., you have a set un-machined in the former material but the latter material which is new will be supplied by Hl. who has promised to do so. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||