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).
Internal memorandum requesting an order for one dozen fabric gear blanks from Messrs Atwood.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\1\ scan0084 | |
| Date | 6th September 1933 | |
| ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X411 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/KT.6.9.33. LEC.3553. Will you please order from Messrs Atwood, Hopwood Street, Preston, Lancs., one dozen fabric gear blanks similar in dimension to those supplied by the B.T.H. Co., in Fabroil A.{Mr Adams} We should like the specification of these gears to be similar to the material which Messrs Atwood are supplying to the Ford Motor Co. We have been over to Dagenham and have details of the tests to which the gear is subjected, and therefore anticipate that we will be able to check the specification on receipt of the gears. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||