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 for a semi-floating axle assembly to test if jacking causes the bridge piece to misalign.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\1\ scan0164 | |
| Date | 15th November 1938 | |
| 1015 HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gryl/R.15.11.38. SEMI-FLOATING AXLE. We want as soon as possible to check whether jacking up under the axle causes the bridge piece to go out of line. Will you please, therefore, let us have for a day's experiment a centre case fitted with end plates and tubes and no other parts except a bridge, which should be secured by the two top bolts only. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||