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 a test on component 9.B.5 by removing floatex mountings, based on a successful previous test on a 1.B.50 body.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 98\2\ scan0182 | |
| Date | 26th October 1938 | |
| 4804 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}15/JH.26.10.38. 9.B.5. Owing to the success we have obtained in mounting 1.B.50 body on flat rubber material we wish to carry out a similar test on 9.B.5. Will you therefore please instruct that the floatex mountings be removed and the holes fitted up in the body brackets, Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RD. | ||