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 a bearing supplier regarding the testing and supply of steel, Dural, and brass bearing cages.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\2\ scan0072 | |
| Date | 18th October 1934 | |
| Exptl. Dept. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}7/KW. 18th October, 1934. The Ransome & Marles Bearing Co.Ltd., Newark-on-Trent. For the attention of Mr. Hickling. Dear Sirs, We thank you for your letter of the 15th october, and agree that it would be as well to postpone running a test on a steel cage until we have completed 10,000 miles on the new Dural cage. With regard to the 35 m.m. bearings, we shall probably be ordering some of these from you shortly. We find we have one of the original sets supplied that have the brass cage. We will return this to you to have a strengthened Dural cage fitted, and hope that you will make sure that all future bearings have the latest type cage. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||