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).
Request to prepare centrifugally cast bearings for Dennis Bearings and provide a cost estimate.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 116\1\ scan0009 | |
| Date | 15th November 1937 | |
| HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} 1020a Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews}10/JH.15.11.37. Dennis Bearings. Will you please prepare bearings in centrifugally cast AC.6 alloy to the attached drawings BV.128-4-30-31 as soon as possible. Will you please let us know the machining and fitting time and material cost for this job ignoring burden costs as we wish to charge this job to Messrs. Dennis Bros. it will also serve as a useful guide for future bearings. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews} | ||