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).
Correspondence regarding a failed ball bearing from a rear hub on 35-EX and the sending of new case-hardened steel parts for a gear-box stay.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 92\3\ scan0220 | |
| Date | 23th April 1937 | |
| 300a Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}4/R.23.4.37. Thank you for the parcel of broken pieces includ- ing ball bearing from the rear hub on 35-EX. With regard to this latter, we presume that you removed the rivets from the cage to examine the bearing, and that these had not been omitted in assembly. In view of what you have told us about the gear-box stay, we are sending you by Air Mail to-morrow morning some new parts made of case-hardened steel. Will you please fit these as soon as they arrive, so as to get as much mileage on them as possible. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||