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).
Letter requesting a pair of front flexes to replace a broken Lockheed flex on a test vehicle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 139\2\ scan0269 | |
| Date | 3rd June 1935 | |
| X1166 Exptl. Dept. 3rd June, 1935. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Bwg.{J. C. Bowring}10/KW. Messrs. S. Smith & Sons (M.A.) Ltd., Cricklewood Works, London, N.W.2. For the attention of Mr. C.W. Nichols. Dear Sirs, Having received the strengthened front brackets for Jackalls on 5-B-IV, our tester in France now informs us that one of the Lockheed flexes was broken at the same time as the original front bracket. Will you please forward to us by return a pair of front flexes so that we may send them to France at the earliest possible moment. Thanking you, Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||