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).
Status update on urgently required parts including valves, shafts, cylinder heads, and shock dampers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 161a\3\ scan0082 | |
| Date | 25th March 1939 | |
| -6- HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel}5/BA.25.3.39. Sodium Filled Exhaust Valves. These valves are very urgently required. AG reported that they are now at grinding. HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} stated that they are to be brought into the shop for completion. Torsional Indicator Shafts B.60 & B.80. These are very urgently required and a promise for completion is to be given at the next meeting. B.60.Cylinder Head Modified Combustion Chamber, Valve seat raised .125 Code EC.6/2. This new head EX.S.1383 is very urgently required. AG to give promise of completion at the next meeting. B.60.Cylinder Head FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}368 Sloping Valve with large throat (Code EC.6/3.) EB.4706 Cylinder Head calls for new rocker gear necessitating new Rocker dies. AG to anticipate completion date. Autolock Front Shock Dampers SCD.1180.Code BA.55/2. A completion date for the above is required, details were instructed 6.3.39. Front Shock Dampers Alum Casings (Code BA.55/5) Instructed 24.3.39 urgently required for the Continental Chassis 14.B.V. Front Shock Dampers FCD.1165 (Code BA.55/1) Instructed 23.2.39. New cast Iron Main Casings required for S.B.50 for 15,000 miles test; the offside casing to be modified to EX.S.1540. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel} | ||