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 the urgent manufacture of six aluminium bronze brackets for portable jacks.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 140\2\ scan0183 | |
| Date | 4th April 1939 | |
| γ 116b To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}1/MH.{M. Huckerby}4.4.39. JACKS. In view of Sales' decision to go ahead with the portable jack on all cars, we need more of these quickly and are held up for the bracket. Can you, therefore, please make us six brackets to FB.4028, (a print of which herewith) in aluminium bronze. When these are finished we will send them to Sessions, who has to fit them before the jack foot is pinned in position. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||