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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 National Physical Laboratory concerning work on cast steel crankshafts.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 93\5\  scan0140
Date  24th August 1937
  
The National Physical Laboratory
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT
Teddington, Middlesex.

TELEGRAMS :- 'PHYSICS TEDDINGTON'
TELEPHONE:- MOLESEY 1380 (11 LINES)

YOUR REF: RM{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 7/AP 21.8.37.
OUR REF: Eng/2
ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE DIRECTOR.

24th August 1937.

Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd.,
Derby.

Dear Sirs,

Cast Steel Crankshafts

The work we have carried out on materials for cast crankshafts will be found in a Paper by H.J.Gough and H.V.Pollard appearing in the March Journal, 1937, No.6, Vol.5, of the Institution of Automobile Engineers. That report deals with five materials of which one only can be correctly described as a cast steel. This material was supplied and is in production by Messrs. William Jessop & Sons Ltd., Brightside Works, Sheffield, to whom I would in the first place refer you. There may be other firms making cast steel crankshafts but I am not aware of this.

Trusting this information will be of service to you.

Yours faithfully,
H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} GOUGH
Superintendent.

ER.
  
  


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