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).
Production of Bakelite bushes and spindles for a car heater.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 137\2\ scan0025 | |
| Date | 9th February 1938 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.2/MH.{M. Huckerby}9.2.38. Referring to By/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}12/G.8.2.38 will you please make one of the pairs of bushes instructed in Bakelite as per drawing, and one in the material which Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. will supply - "Idelite" Bakelite grade B.124. Will you also please make the spindles to EXS.471 as per attached marked up print, as we wish to start with a small running clearance and increase same as necessary. We will hand you the car heater to which one set of these details should be fitted as soon as possible. Will you please note that the pieces to EXS.466 are not new pieces but modificationss to existing pieces D.76165, one of which is at present fitted to the heater mentioned above and which requires to be modified first. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. | ||