Letter detailing a safety concern about the low clearance of the flywheel shield on certain bridges.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\4\ 04-page051 | |
| Date | 2nd August 1912 guessed | |
| time, but I am afraid the flywheel is rather too low for safety & a very bad accident might occur if one of these bridges were taken at a fair speed especially at night. On one of the occasions referred to the car was on a bye road, but on two the bridges were encountered on the main road between Callander & Killin which is used by large numbers of motors. as the flywheel shield only just clears the flywheel itself it is obvious that an inch or two more in the height of the roadway over the bridge might cause a very bad smash. I should be glad to hear what you think of this & whether others have had the same experience. I have not yet had it happen in England Yours faithfully C.H.Whittington Messrs Rolls-Royce Ltd | ||
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).