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).
Confirming the fitting of Vandervell main bearings to the B.80 engine due to issues with the B.60 units.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 123\5\ scan0114 | |
| Date | 11th October 1938 | |
| 1044 also 1020. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}7/MH.{M. Huckerby}11.10.38. VANDERVELL BEARINGS - B.60 & B.80. This memo to confirm that the first B.80 engine will be fitted with Vandervell main bearings in view of the fact that it was not possible to get them in on the B.60 units 1, 2 and 3 owing to insufficient metal left in the crankcase bearing bores. Vandervells submitted a layout for the B.60 engine L.1095, which is suitable to use for the B.80 engine, the front, centre and rear being the same, likewise the intermediates except in number, B.60 having 4 and B.80 having 6. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||