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Meeting notes detailing action points for various vehicle components.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 174\3\  img225
Date  12th November 1940
  
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Con't.

PRESSURE COOLING.
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Col. will get Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /HH. to make a detail drawing of the Buick radiator pressure relief valve, and then get it fitted to one of our cars with a view to testing it. [✓ X]

RADIATORS.
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Col. will get hold of the Morris radiator if possible, which we have on order, and also, when he has sufficient points to raise, he will contact Steadman of Marsden's. [written to Morris: apparently no reply yet] [X]

HEATER.
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} will contact Roberts to try and locate the underseat heater. [✓]

SERVO LINING.
Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} will write to Vandervells and ask them to let us have some servo lining. [✓]

12.B.V.
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /MHR. {M. H. Rigby} wants to take efficiencies on 12.B.V. [Still to be done - X H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} has had car]

10.B.V.
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /MHR. {M. H. Rigby} wants 10.B.V. in order to try some old aluminium drums on it. [Car out of order]

DAMPERS.
The question of machining the front dampers arose. No final decision has yet been made.

SPRINGS.
gaiters. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /GB. will tell Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Clm. {D. D. Clapham} where to get tin [✓]

STORES.
Everybody is going to look into the Stores and see what there is that they would like to use on urgent

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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).


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