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 an experiment to modify frame tie-bars according to Mr. Royce's wishes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67\1\ scan0151 | |
| Date | 26th November 1925 guessed | |
| To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 48380 DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}1/M23.112.5. FRAME TIE-BARS. X.8380 X.5380 In accordance with Mr. Royce's wishes would you kindly make an experiment with tie-bars, in which the threads are .750" dia. instead of .625", the thickness of the unscrewed part of the tie-bar being increased in proportion, and of course the jaws and the eyelets screwed to the larger dia., but without altering the size of the pins or any other parts. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||