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).
Status report and action list for various automotive components and test rigs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 161a\1\ scan0049 | |
| Date | 30th August 1939 | |
| -8- HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel}5/BA.30.8.39. Warner type Gear Box. Code BA.83. Details for the above are instructed, same are to be carefully checked up with a view of arriving at a completion date. B.80 Studebaker Crankshaft Damper Code BE.10/3. This is now fitted to B.80.No.7 - Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}'s car. PD.468 Timken Bearings applied to Layshaft. Code BA.82. GB.5249 Ti2nd Motion Shaft. GB.5251 Bearing Shaft. GB.5252 Bush - Bearing Shaft. GB.5268/72 Adj.Washer. B.V.Front Axle Yokes reduced out of centre point. PD.388-413-416 Code BA.3. Details instructed 7.7.39. These details are to be treated as urgent - promise to be given at the next meeting. 2 weeks before die is available. Contact Breaker Test Rig Code MC.150. This job is urgently required, promise of completion to be given at the next meeting. Rear Axle Gear Code B.533/2. GB.5339/40 Wheel and Pinion produced in S/ZNCR. These are very urgently required for Dynamometer testing. Humber Snipe Crankshaft Damper Code BC.17/6. Promise of completion is required at the next meeting. Induction System 1.500 bore. Ex.S.1527 - B.60 type. Ex.S.1537 - Wraith III type. EB.4838/9 Bentley 80 type. B.60 type are most urgently required for test. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel} | ||