Letter from an Engineer and Carriage Builder detailing modifications made to chassis, including replacing bronze trunnions with steel ones.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 80\2\ scan0149 | |
| Date | 4th May 1920 | |
| X.2628 T.H. Gill, Engineer & Automobile Carriage Builder, 25 Chilworth Street, Hyde Park, W. (close to G.W.R. terminus). COPY. JJG/K. 4th.May 1920. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Conduit Street, London.W. Dear Sirs, I am in receipt of your favour of the 3rd.inst. ref., CL27/H3.5.20 and note your remarks. I have pleasure in stating that I am not now fitting cantilever springs to your make of chassis, although I have made some special steel trunnions with 3 per cent nickel steel pins as one or two cars which came down here after conversions have had bronze trunnions which as I have explained to the owners are absolutely unreliable and have therefore made steel trunnions to take their place. The only alterations I am making to your make of chassis, are raising the Radiators and making 16 gauge aluminium bonnets and these are done under very careful supervision and I am pleased to say that out of all those that I have done I have not had one report of inefficiency or inequality of workmanship. On some of the older models I am fitting the mixture control on the top of the steering as when the same was on the dash and I put a new scuttle dash it made it almost impossible for the driver to reach it. Contd, | ||
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).