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 and fit a drive shaft for the water pump on Wraith car 29.G.VI.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 108\3\ scan0056 | |
| Date | 22th April 1938 | |
| 600. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager}14/JH.22.4.38. WRAITH CAR 29.G.VI. We wish to run the above car at maximum engine revs without a dynamo. This means that a drive shaft will have to be made from the dynamo coupling to the water pump. Will you please therefore instruct for such a shaft to be made and fitted to the car when next in the fitting shop. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} | ||