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).
Excessive lubrication on the Bijur feed for Wraith rear shackles and a request to modify drawings.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 141\2\ scan0142 | |
Date | 9th August 1937 | |
To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} 1184 also 600a Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Les.4/JH.9.8.37. Bijur Feed Wraith Rear Shackles. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} has complained of excessive lubrication of the rear spring shackles on 26-G-VI in France. Instructions now ask for a ZS.5 plug feed at this point on Wraith where as Bentley and 25 H.P. have ZS.3 plug. We have asked Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW.{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} to fit ZS.3 plug and should like the drawings to be modified. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/LES.{Ivan A. Leslie} | ||