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).
Preparation of name plates and interim stamping of S.S. Subframes.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\8\ Scan141 | |
| Date | 31th May 1929 | |
| W/S (Cr{Mr Cra???ster / Mr Chichester}) - from SFT.{Mr Swift} c. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. Gc. c. Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. D/BP. X7380 RECEIVED 31 MAY 1929 SFT.{Mr Swift}3/B.31.5.29. S.S. SUBFRAMES. ---------- With reference to memo BY/Cgh{W Clough}3/G30.5.29., BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} is now preparing a detail drawing for a suitable name plate, on which will be marked the drawing number and a space left for the subframe number to be stamped on by the Works. In the meantime I would state that the first 9 frames are being despatched to-day; and in order to get these 9 frames away we are stamping the front end of the frame between the channels, with the code number and the frame number. SFT.{Mr Swift} | ||