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).
Mr. Royce's anxiety to switch rear axle production from steel castings to drop forgings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 2\6\ B002_X 140 141 157-page080 | |
| Date | 2nd September 1913 | |
| No. WGR32/T2913. Sept. 2nd. 1913. Mr. Royce is very anxious that we make our rear axles in a drop forging as quickly as possible. As you are aware, we have had a lot of trouble with the present steel castings. [Handwritten] X137 | ||