Progress meeting memo suggesting design modifications for several chassis components for functionality and weight reduction.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\6\ Scan027 | |
| Date | 1st September 1919 | |
| H.R. 235a (500 T) (S.D. 408. 26-4-17.) Bm. 2/156/13. [Handwritten top right: X2565 chassis] BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /JH11/H. 1. 9. 191 [Stamped initials, left margin:] RB. {R. Bowen} HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} EH. [Struck through: FCL.] PROGRESS MEETING ------------------ The Production Dept. desire to consider the following points at the next Progress Meeting:- 1. F.4469. Sliding Piece for Side Steering Tube. The tab on this part to be machined flat instead of circular to clear ball. 2. Piston. Whether the dimensions from the centre-lines to the Gudgeon Pin to the top of the piston, should be increased .040, in order to obtain 25.0 cubic inches compression space. 3. Steering Column Box. T.2417. Check Piece. We would suggest that [struck through: this part were made of D.M.] instead of Aluminium. 4. Exhaust Pipe Flanges [struck through: and Connection]. Due to these parts [word 'being' is circled] being very heavy at present, especially E.2240, connection, we would suggest the possibility of re-designing these parts in order to obtain lighter parts. BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /JH. | ||
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).