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).
Request to arrange for the production of dies for eight-cylinder engine crankshaft forgings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 124\1\ scan0084 | |
| Date | 26th April 1939 | |
| ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/Iss. 1044 c. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} BY.2/G.26.4.39. EIGHT CYLINDER ENGINE. [Handwritten in red: Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}] Would you kindly make the necessary arrangements to have dies sunk for the production of the above crankshaft forgings, with the least possible delay. We have a number of shafts to produce, and it is desirable to have these produced from the finished dies, as it gives is experience of the parts we are going to use, and incidentally material reduces the work that HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} has to do. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||