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Requesting to fit six balance weights to a crankshaft instead of the original twelve.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 169\1\  img111
Date  15th May 1931
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
NU663.
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} 1/WJ.15.5.31.

24-EX.

We wish to try six balance weights on this car crankshaft. Will you therefore please fit six of the original twelve for this car to webs No. 1, 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, as shown.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Gry. {Shadwell Grylls}
Jm. {Mr Morley}
  
  
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).


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