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).
Internal request for a steam valve, studs, and a water pump thrust plug for a Wraith.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 108\3\ scan0134 | |
| Date | 8th March 1938 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.5/MH.{M. Huckerby}8.3.38. We send you herewith a steam valve to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}417. Will you please supply suitable studs for fixing this to a Wraith radiator top tank, and fit a steam escape pipe to it, (the second production Wraith at present in the Exp. Garage may be used to get right shape of pipe.) The assembly together with the studs should then be forwarded to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} at Chateauroux. Will you also send him a Wraith water pump thrust plug to EXS.510 with suitable adjusting washers. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. | ||