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).
The completion of six gearboxes for the Senior Range and a request for a report on gear failures.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\2\ scan0311 | |
| Date | 9th February 1941 | |
| To Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} FILE 1153 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}15/SW.9.2.41. Rationalised Gearbox - Senior Range. We are going to endeavour to get the six partly finished gearboxes for the Senior Range cars completed. It is therefore, of primary importance that we get the gears ground to the correct form. Have you sufficient information as yet, to let me have a report on the gear failures you are at present investigating. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||