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 stripping of a Salisbury axle to enable a weight analysis to be taken.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 114\1\ scan0308 | |
| Date | 7th April 1940 | |
| 1015- HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Hlm. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}S/MG.7.4.40. SALISBURY AXLE. Will you please strip the Salisbury axle which is now standing in the Shop waiting for the Ripplet, to enable a weight analysis to be taken. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||