Request for production parts to make the 32-EX gearbox passably quiet.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\2\ scan0078 | |
| Date | 23th November 1936 | |
| 328 To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 6/AP.23.11.36. 32-EX. GEARBOX. Can we get the following parts from Production in order to make this gearbox passable. At present it is impossibly noisy. REQUIRED Returned from RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} for 32-EX.Gearbox. 1st. motion shaft. 3rd. motion shaft. New continuous C/M. 3rd. and 2nd. speed gears. Both halves of casting. Rear coupling. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||
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).