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).
Instruction memo to the Fitting Shop regarding the inspection of a gearbox and testing of a rear axle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 94\2\ scan0268 | |
| Date | 3rd August 1937 | |
| HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} 328 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}2/R.3.8.37. 30-EX. We are sending into the Fitting Shop, gearbox 4.HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}, and the rear axle from this car. Will you please dismantle the gearbox for inspection, and if the parts are ready fit the Buick type second speed sliding piece. As regards the axle, will you please fit a new pair of axle gears as we want to see whether we can reproduce on the dynamometer the failure of high temperatures experienced in France. If 4.HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} box is not ready when the axle is ready we will borrow No.8 for test. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||