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 condition of engine bearings, noting issues with insufficient clearance.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\3\ scan0177 | |
| Date | 6th October 1937 guessed | |
| - 2 - The remaining five big ends are the original bearings, but the Germans have fallen in the usual trap with Hall's metal in that the have overdone letting together one or two of the bearings, with the result that the shells shew signs of "tightening up" through insufficient clearance on the journal diameter. Pk/KC. | ||