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 fit cyanide-hardened Phantom III gearbox gears into Box No.4-HS, with a change to the fit of the third-speed pinion bushes.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\2\ scan0192 | |
Date | 18th March 1937 | |
328 HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}8/R.18.3.37. Cyanide Hardened P.III Gearbox Gears. Will you please fit the gears which have come back from Fords into Box. No.4-HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} We wish to retain all the other features at present in this gearbox except that we should like the normal fit of the third speed pinion bushes. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||