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Numbered list of engineering tasks and action items for various individuals, concluding with a general instruction to testers.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 174\3\  img182
Date  12th April 1939
  
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(12) AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} to instruct frames to be welded on the top only.
(13) IMF. to instruct D.O. how to detail the undersheets.
(14) Lightened parts for Ripple. AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} to instruct lightened shock damper levers and brake drums. Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} to get lightened bumpers produced.
(15) FD. {Frank Dodd - Bodies} to urge cheaper modified parts.
(16) AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} to urge cheaper shock damper connections.
.(17) Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} to try proprietary intake silencers.
(18) JBD. {John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} to instruct Ripple tank to have no stone-guard.
(19) JBD. {John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} to see Design to get Buick type filler scheme fitted up on a B.V.
(20) FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} to see Design about larger studs for the steering box.
(21) JBD. {John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} to mock up simplified hand brake lever.
(22) Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} and IKW. to give a report on fumes in the body. Fumes seem to be getting into 9.B. from under the rear seat.
(23) Wym. {G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} to arrange for 2.B.50 steering to be made similar to that of the Silver Wraith.
(24) FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} to see if we can save weight on the Ripple radiator Matrix.
(25) RC. {R. Childs} to produce some platinum-pointed plugs for Mx. {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} to try.

Now that we have a specification for B.V., all testers are asked to consider what simplification and reduction in cost they could carry out on the rationalised parts that have completed 10,000 miles satisfactorily.

Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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