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 to Alford & Alder for manufacturing wheel hubs for a Bentley chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 137\5\ scan0184 | |
| Date | 1st December 1937 | |
| Hoor 200B 1159. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}6/AP.1.12.37. WHEEL HUBS Are you in agreement that we should instruct the Order Office to write to Alford & Alder as follows:- 'We have given this matter of hubs further consideration and have decided not to spend £50 on a sample set which will not be made by the correct tools. Instead, we suggest you obtain the hob and broach to manufacture hubs to the attached drawings, for our Bentley chassis. When you have these tools we will say whether there have been any alterations to the hub such as change of track. If then the sample hubs made by the correct tools are satisfactory we shall place our Production Orders with you.' Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||