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).
Confirmation memo requesting a new Bentley gearbox for destruction testing on a dynamometer.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\4\ scan0140 | |
| Date | 16th April 1937 | |
| HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} γ 228. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}15/R.16.4.37. This is to confirm our asking you to try and obtain from production a complete new Bentley gearbox, so that we can test this to destruction on the dynamometer. We shall be ready for this experiment in about a fortnight's time, and we shall take the opportunity to test the Duralumin crown wheel. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||