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).
Request to inspect a unit from a customer's car (B-47-HM) due to a big end bearing failure.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 115\1\ scan0225 | |
| Date | 19th December 1936 | |
| 1620 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swd1.3/JH.19.12.36. R.6.B.R. This unit has been sentinto us as taken from a customers car B-47-HM{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs}) in which a big end bearing failed. Will you please dismantle and lay out for Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}'s inspeycion as stripped, in order to try and determine any reason for the failure which occurred after 800 miles on the road. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/L.H.Swindall. | ||