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Selection of a luggage grid for an experimental car, referencing a heavier condemned version and a lighter one.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 114\4\  scan0212
Date  1st June 1934
  
X5400

To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
Copy to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} E.BY.

re Luggage Grid for Experimental Car, 21-G-4.

Referring to the above, i.e. the very heavy parts which you showed me when I was at Derby on the 1st May, I have had this matter investigated and I do not think I can do better than enclose copy of LHS {Lord Herbert Scott - Chair} 's memo. to me on the subject.

Briefly the position is that no grids of the same type as have ever been supplied on a body to our order previous to this one.

The first one like it was condemned by us because of its weight and Hooper's produced a lighter one which gave trouble.

Paragraph 4 explains how the one for this car came to be different from the lighter one standard at that date.

Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}

Enc. Copy of LHS. {Lord Herbert Scott - Chair} 1/CP30.5.34
  
  
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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