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 determine the material of a corroding pivot bush and bearing bracket and to advise on a chromium coating.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 166\6\ img035 | |
| Date | 29th January 1941 | |
| To Mr. Squires. 6073 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs}1/LT.29.1.41. Herewith pivot bush and bearing bracket as used on a trafficator. Will you please determine the kind of material of which they are made. We find, in use, that the bush is apt to corrode. Would you advise a thin coating of chromium? O/N. 753. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} | ||