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 order three steel trestles with iron axle shafts and an additional nine axles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\1\ scan0416 | |
| Date | 14th June 1940 | |
| EJJ. from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 1209 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}23/ML.14.6.40. Will you please order three steel trestles to B.78887, complete with iron axle shafts for the wheels, from Thorpe's. We have already discussed the matter with them. Will you also please supply nine axles as per sketch attached. These are required to fit to the axles already ordered from Ford and Weston's. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}, | ||