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).
Instructions regarding the repair of a 32-EX gearbox with seized third speed bushes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\2\ scan0046 | |
| Date | 22th June 1937 | |
| 300a HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}6/R.22.6.37. 32-EX GEARBOX. The third speed bushes on this box have seized. Will you please fit hard steel bushes having 1 1/4 thou. clearance both inside and outside. At the same time, will you please fit the new pair of gears intended for the second box, as these have duplication holes drilled in them. If a new shaft is necessary, this could also be stolen from the second box. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||