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 the manufacture and testing of proposed 'Eagle' XX engine crankshafts against the standard 'Eagle' IX model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 43\1\ Scan062 | |
| Date | 10th July 1924 | |
| RMC. c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X3889 Rg{Mr Rowledge}/SFP1/W10.7.24 CRANKSHAFT TEST MODELS. Further to our memo Rg{Mr Rowledge}/SFP1/W2.7.24 re the above, we now send you herewith blue print of DES.132, showing two further models which we require testing against one another, the lower model being the standard "Eagle" IX, and the top one the proposed crankshaft for the new engine, "Eagle" XX. Will you please have these pieces made and tested in the same way as previously instructed. Rg{Mr Rowledge}/SFP. SP{Mr Spinney} RECEIVED | ||