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).
Requesting modifications to a front drum for a water exclusion experiment.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 84\2\ scan0266 | |
| Date | 12th January 1935 | |
| 4206 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} We want to try another water excluding scheme on 5-B-IV which so far has given promising results. Will you remove the straight-sided flange on O.S. front drum, give it to me and replace it with the modified form in Sketch Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1708. Will you also fit the aluminium screen detailed in same sketch. This screen must be discontinued near the side steering tube and possibly at the top of the drum as well. You will notice that section 'B' is unsupported. It may be necessary to fit one support half way along it. We would like this at the earliest possible moment. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/A.F. Martindale. | ||