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 to fit old D.B.S. gears to a B-12 rebuild for slow running experiments due to a delay with American supercharger gears.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 140\1\ scan0165 | |
| Date | 26th April 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x209 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth.21/KW. 26.4.35. B-12. In the event of the American supercharger gears not having arrived in time for the rebuild of B-12, will you please fit the old D.B.S. gears of 3.6 ratio. These will be useless for power tests, but will enable us to get on with slow running experiments. We hope to have the bed clear to receive B-12 in the course of a day or two. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smth. | ||