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).
Modifications and a subsequent failure of a B-12 unit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 140\1\ scan0146 | |
| Date | 4th March 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} +rog Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth.10/KW.4.3.35. B-12 UNIT. We are sending this unit into the shop to-day for the modifications asked for in Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth.18/KW.28.2.35. Since issuing the above memo, one of the big end bearings has failed. As far as we can see through the oil drain hole, one of the crankshaft oil caps has come out. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth. | ||