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).
Request to manufacture a rod for a spring rate test apparatus.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 119\1\ scan0135 | |
| Date | 26th August 1938 | |
| 1024. HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM{Anthony F. Martindale}2/R.26.8.38. SPRING RATE TEST APPARATUS. Would you please make one rod to the attached sketch. The eye should be formed by bumping up. The rod should be kept as smooth as possible as a sleeve has to run on it. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||