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).
Letter to Salisbury Axle Co. Ltd. requesting detailed drawings for an axle and proposing an alternative manufacturing method.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\1\ scan0347 | |
| Date | 25th March 1941 | |
| Copy to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} and to Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Axles genl 1015 25th March, 1941. Ev{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}/DB.{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}3/ET. Messrs. Salisbury Axle Co. Ltd., Birch Road - Witton, BIRMINGHAM, 6. For the attention of Mr. J.S. Daniell. (Your ref. JAD/MMF.) Dear Sirs, With further reference to the axle we are requiring substantially as your drawing HA/001-2 and HA/001-5, we would appreciate from you some of the detail drawings for the axle in question, in order to enable us to prepare our detail drawings of the parts we have to make. The main parts concerned are obviously the axle shafts and tubes, but details of any mating parts would also be helpful. In this connection, the outer end of the axle tube that we are using is not to your drawing HA/001-5, but as HA/001-6, so that the detail of the tube for that axle would also be useful. As an alternative to your suggestion of machining the new tubes from the solid, have you in stock any tubes with the end of HA/110-6 if we were to consider building up our tubes by welding? Yours faithfully, D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} Bastow Chassis Design Dept. | ||