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 preparation of material blanks for two sets of offset gears for trial by Gleasons in America.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 111\4\ scan0084 | |
| Date | 3rd November 1938 | |
| 802 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}11/MH.{M. Huckerby}3.11.38. Will you please prepare the necessary blanks in S/ZN. which we can send to Gleasons in America so that they can make for us two sets of 8/37 1 1/2" offset gears for trial in our own material. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||