Recommendation to cease using sheet metal pulleys on Smith dynamos following a failure on a customer's car.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\E\September1920\ Scan6 | |
| Date | 8th September 1920 | |
| To EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} C. to Da. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} C. to EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} C. to EV. {Ivan Evernden - coachwork} [STAMP] ORIGINAL SEP 8 1920 [STAMP] RECEIVED X.295 X.2608 RE SMITH DYNAMO PULLEY. On the Smith Dynamo which was fitted to Mr. Northey.'s Car we have had a failure of the pulley. This pulley is the sheet metal type supplied by Messrs. Smith. We recommend that in future no Smith dynamos are fitted to Rolls-Royce cars with these pulleys; either Smiths must fit the solid type or they must be fitted by ourselves. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||
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).