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 build of a specific gear arrangement for steering experiments on vehicle 21-G-IV.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\3\ scan0339 | |
| Date | 15th October 1935 | |
| To R.H.C. x550 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}24/KW.15.10.35. Steering Experiments on 21-G-IV. The arrangement of the second gear which we wish to try first in the above experiments is as "Gear No.2 (C)" with 9.437" pendulum lever, in our memo. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}2/KW.6.9.35, except that the rockershaft should be standard as in "Gear No.2 (A)". Will you please build up this arrangement. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.J.Hardy. | ||