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).
Requesting a time estimate for producing the pattern for the B.50 cast iron engine's crankcase and cylinder block.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 111\2\ scan0351 | |
| Date | 4th May 1938 | |
| HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. By/NS.{Norman Scott} 800 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}13/R.4.5.38. B.50 CAST IRON ENGINE. The detail drawings of the crankcase and cylinder block of this unit are now nearing completion, and you have had the scheme drawings for some time. We should be glad, therefore, if you could give us an estimate of the time it will take to produce the pattern for this piece which is the long distance portion of the engine. It will then be possible to plan that the remaining detail drawings of the engine are available so that no particular items shall hold up its production. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||