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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
  
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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}
  
  


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