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).
Production of Bentley big end bearings from R.R.56 material.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\1\ scan0292 | |
| Date | 15th January 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} 102 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}5/JH.15.I.37. BENTLEY BEARINGS. From the memo. By/EM.3/J.12.2.37. 2 bars of forged and heat treated R.R.56 material have been received from High duty alloys Ltd., Will you please hand to H1. a piece of this actual material for check of analysis. Following their confirmation that this is O.K. to specification, will you please produce 3 sets of Bentley big end bearings from this material. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/L.H.Swindall. | ||