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 from Ford Motor Company regarding a visit to study equipment and details on gear heat treatment.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\3\ scan0075 | |
| Date | 21th January 1937 | |
| Ford Motor Company, Ltd. DAGENHAM, ESSEX. TELEPHONE, RAINHAM 3000. 1065 21 Jan 1937 W A Robotham Esq Messrs Rolls Royce Ltd DERBY Dear Mr Robotham: In reply to your letter of the 19th instant, we are quite prepared to allow Mr Eccles to come down here and study equipment for two or three days commencing Monday, January 25th. With reference to the gears which you wish us to heat treat for you; before you go ahead and finish machining it will be advisable for you to submit to us a print giving finished dimensions of the part so that we may advise whether it is necessary for any allowance to be made for finishing after heat treatment. We finish machine the teeth of a gear completely prior to the cyanide treatment, but on some contours it may be necessary to allow a few thousandths of an inch for final grinding. Will you bear this in mind please? Yours very truly FORD MOTOR COMPANY LIMITED A R Smith General Manager ARS FWH MB [Handwritten note in margin]: Have replied - GRY{Shadwell Grylls} | ||