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 modification to the Spectre Rig Gearbox for oil feeding.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\1\ scan0214 | |
| Date | 17th October 1935 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x 326 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}1/KW.17.10.35. SpectreCodename for Phantom III Rig Gearbox. Will you please fit to the above gearbox the suggested scheme for feeding oil to the inside of the 3rd motion shaft shown on N. Sch.4668 which we have handed to H.P.S. The three 0.0625 holes in the 3rd motion shaft asked for in our memo..Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}10/KW.11.10.35 should be either not drilled or plugged up. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.J.Hardy. | ||