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 inclusion of modified cylinder blocks for B.III & Wraith III units to assist the foundry and create an economy in production.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 99\1\ scan0117 | |
| Date | 9th September 1938 | |
| c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD{Frank Dodd - Bodies} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} r 419 also To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} 619.Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}2/MH.{M. Huckerby}9.9.38. CYLINDER BLOCKS (B.III & WRAITH III.) Will you please include the modified cylinder blocks to ECD.871 on the three new units you are building for us, namely W.III No.10, B.III Nos. 6 and 7. The modification is to assist the foundry in their casting and represents an economy in production. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||