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 reproduce the metal portions of a variable-pitch American fan blade for bonding with rubber.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 135\1\ scan0035 | |
| Date | 18th May 1934 | |
| X150 9 RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.4/MA.18.5.34. We have already sent you a blade of a variable pitch American fan for examination. We should like you to reproduce the metal portions of this blade exactly, so that we may forward them to the Goodrich Rubber Co., who will attempt to bond the metal parts together with rubber as in the American fan blade. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. | ||