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).
Letter from The Rover Company regarding complaints about Hardy Spicer propeller shafts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\3\ scan0149 | |
| Date | 17th November 1936 | |
| 12621029 London Service Depot SEAGRAVE ROAD FULHAM LONDON S.W.6. TELEPHONE: No 8081 (7 Lines) ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY AND NOT TO INDIVIDUALS Contractors to H.M. Government. THE ROVER COMPANY LTD NEW METEOR WORKS: COVENTRY TELEGRAMS: ROVER, COVENTRY. BCM/ROVER. CODES: A.{Mr Adams} B. C. 5TH EDITION LIEBERS MARCONI MOTOR TRADE BENTLEY Our Ref. MCW/PM. Your Ref. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}6/R.{Sir Henry Royce} 17th. November, 1936. S. H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Grylls Esq., Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Mr. Grylls, In reply to your letter of Nov. 12th., our present complaint about Hardy Spicer propeller shafts is on the matter of balance rather than reliability. We have in the past three years had one or two cases of failure of these shafts, but they were due to production faults rather than anything inherent in the design. Yours sincerely, THE ROVER COMPANY LIMITED. M C Wilks Technical Department. M.C.Wilks. P.S. I could not be very informative to you on the 'phone because my office was full of representatives from a rival propeller shaft firm at the time. | ||