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 request for modifications to a test bed gearbox for servo tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\4\ scan0094 | |
| Date | 15th June 1934 | |
| ✓228 RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}15/MA.15.6.34. We are handing over to you one of our test bed gear boxes which is fitted with a first motion shaft to suit the Borg and Beck clutch on Unit B.1. We wish to fit this gearbox to Unit B.3; will you therefore please fit a first motion shaft to suit a standard Bentley unit. Will you please also correct the out of true running of the Servo drum as we are using this gearbox for servo tests. The above work is very urgent as it is holding up the test bed. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.J.Hardy. | ||