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 measurements of slacks in a 35-EX gearbox before and after rebuilding.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\1\ scan0239 | |
| Date | 23th November 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X328 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth.3/KW.23.11.35. 35-EX Gearbox. Will you please measure the slacks in this gearbox before dismantling, and also after the rebuild with the tightened sliding piece. We should like both the individual gear and the overall slacks measured in the same way as you did on Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3, the box which went to France in 32-EX. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth. | ||