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 manufacture four pivot thrust washers for the Wraith steering system from a new Bakelite material.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 9\7\ 07-page105 | |
| Date | 31th December 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} c. Wyn 650 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}1/AP.31.12.37 WRAITH STEERING We wish to try some pivot thrust washers in Bakelite material. Will you please make four washers to GW.399 from the rod we have handed to you. The outside dia. of the rod is 0.037 smaller than the drawing size of the washers but this discrepancy does not matter. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} | ||