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).
Instruction to use standard bearings for a B.80 water pump by modifying a distance piece due to mislaid special bearings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\3\ scan0255 | |
| Date | 12th February 1940 | |
| HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} 1269 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Ed.{J. L. Edwards}3/GH.12.2.40. re B.80 WATER PUMP SCD.1398. --------------------- We understand that the special bearings ordered for this pump have beeb mislaid. Rather than hold the job up will you please instruct Standard Bearings which we understand are rather narrower and make up the distance by modifying the distance piece. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Ed.{J. L. Edwards} | ||