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 an order for six sets of parts for the Wraith III chassis frame and fittings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\10\ 10-page148 | |
| Date | 15th October 1937 | |
| HHO/CAN Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/Ms C. HHS C. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Grye 627 BY/HEB{H. Biraben}12/WB.{Mr Brazier/Mr Bell} 15.10.37. WRAITH III CHASSIS - 6 SETS. FRAME & FITTINGS - SEC:7000. Further to memo's BY/HEB{H. Biraben}1/WB.{Mr Brazier/Mr Bell}13.10.37 and BY/HEB{H. Biraben}3/WB.{Mr Brazier/Mr Bell}14.10.37, and in accordance with memo BY6/N.7.10.37, will you please order six sets of parts to the following L.O.P :- FW.1384. Sheet 3. L.O.P. Frame & Fittings. This is in accordance with the specification laid down in memo Rml/Bλ. 4.10.37, and includes the modifications called for in memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Les16/JH. 12.10.37. We attach to RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/CAN's copy, tracings of the above L.O.P. together with tracings of the following parts new to production :- FW.290/1 DC, FW.298, FW.939, FW1346-8/9, FW.1350/1, FW.265-7/9-71, FW.1243 DC, FW.273, FW.1113/4/5, FW.1116/7 DCs, FW.1370, FW.273, FW.1192, and G.85083. Kindly issue prints to Expl:Dept. only. We have not attached tracing of part prefixed s, viz. FW.1345, as this will be instructed with the remaining parts which make up the assembled frame supplied by Rubery Owens, on a separate memo. BY/HEB.{H. Biraben} | ||