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 provide a Gleason Bevel Axle to Mr. Hives for a 10,000-mile test trials car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\1\ Scan110 | |
| Date | 1st December 1919 | |
| X.3612 Mr. Sinclair. c. to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} [text crossed out] EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} COPY. EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} /T2/01.12.19. X.3612 RE GLEASON BEVEL AXLES. X.3644 Will you please have over to Mr. Hives as soon as ever possible one of the Gleason Axles which he requires to run 10,000 miles test trials car ? Mr. Hives will return the standard axle in its place, presumably one which has been passed and quietened, and suitable for fitting to production car. EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} /Thn. | ||