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).
Request to manufacture a plate for use in Bentley cylinder distortion tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\1\ scan0232 | |
| Date | 30th January 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews} c. to RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/SS.{S. Smith} 219 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews}2/AP.30.1.37. BENTLEY CYLINDER DISTORTION We should like you to have made a plate to the attached sketch Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}288, this is for use on cylinder distortion tests and is to be used in conjunction with a grinding fixture we have found in the Works, and which RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/SS.{S. Smith} is having suitable studs fitted so that a cylinder block can be machined whilst clamped to this fixture. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Mths.{Reg Matthews} | ||