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).
Instructions for fitting a Marles steering column to a 20/25 HP chassis and an urgent request for a pendulum lever.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\3\ Scan007 | |
| Date | 17th September 1934 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} 4094 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}8/KW.17.9.34. Marles Steering on 20/25 HP. We are sending you instructions for fitting a Marles steering column to a 20/25 HP. chassis, ref. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}7/KW.17.9.34. We attach a sketch of the Pendulum lever that will be required for the above steering box. As the job is extremely urgent will you please make one of these pendulum levers as soon as possible so that it can be sent to the Adamant Engineering Co. to have the splines cut. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} | ||