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).
The production of parts for a new 8-cylinder high power aluminum engine unit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 124\1\ scan0200 | |
| Date | 11th July 1939 | |
| To HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} 8-CYLINDER HIGH POWER ALUM UNIT. In reply to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel}3/BA.11.7.39, will you please go through with 3 sets of the special pieces peculiar to the alum version of the 8 cylinder engine but only 2 sets of the pieces which are common to the Cast Iron Engine. We can then call upon the standardised parts from the Conventional engine if we decide that the 3 complete alum units are to be built. In going ahead with 3 sets of the special parts we are really referring more to castings than to finished machined parts, as, of course, modifications may be found to be desirable after the first engine has been run. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||