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 the production of 4 more sets of parts for a Dynamo Coupling.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 132\1\ scan0102 | |
| Date | 14th January 1939 | |
| 1116 To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}2/MH.{M. Huckerby}14.1.39. DYNAMO COUPLING. Will you please produce 4 more sets of parts in accordance with Ry/Ald.{F. Allwood - Experimental Design}10/G.22.10.38, which accommodates the Metalastik coupling similar to that on 8.B.V. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} will supply the actual Metalastik coupling. We should like to get one fitted to Mx{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer}'s car 27.G.VI as soon as possible and we have already instructed that this type of coupling to be fitted to the units for J.B.50 and 9.B.W. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||