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).
Urgent request to replace a deflecting cast aluminium clutch casing with a cast iron one for a Wraith car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 108\3\ scan0077 | |
| Date | 24th February 1939 | |
| 600 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}1/JH.24.2.39. Wraith car 29.G.VI. We have the cast iron B.60 engine unit fitted in the above car, and are suspecting the cast aluminium clutch casing of deflecting. Will you please instruct for us one clutch casing to GB.4332 in cast iron as soon as possible, and fit same to 29.G.VI. when ready. We should be pleased if you would treat this particular job as very urgent. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||