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).
Requesting the completion of detailing and production of two Studebaker dampers for the B.80 unit, as the original cannot be sourced.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 124\1\ scan0131 | |
| Date | 24th May 1939 | |
| 1044 URGENT. To By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} c. HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} c. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}5/MH.{M. Huckerby}24.5.39. STUDEBAKER DAMPER FOR B.80 UNIT. This memo to confirm our verbal request for you to complete the detailing of the Studebaker damper as applied to the above unit and to instruct that two such dampers be made complete. The actual Studebaker damper which we have adapted to a B.80 in accordance with SCD.1176 - By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}1/AW. 14.2.39 - cannot be repeated from the makers, hence the decision to make a copy. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||