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 arrange for cadmium plating of front and rear road springs with specific camber details.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67a\2\ scan0137 | |
| Date | 29th June 1928 | |
| RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X8410 (X1360) Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rnl/LG29.6.28. Will you please arrange for 3 pairs of 1150 lbs. front road springs to be cadmium plated, and one pair of 2000 lbs. rear springs to be treated in the same manner. Will you please note that the latest type front springs have an unloaded free camber of 2.1" - the rear spring unloaded camber 1.65". We should like the springs to be plated in exactly the same way as the pair we have just been testing and exact details of the operation to be recorded. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||