Vehicle road clearance calculations based on wheel size and addressing an error where tinsmiths deviated from drawings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\4\ 04-page025 | |
| Date | 3rd May 1912 | |
| (100 H) (X 896. 3.5.12) E.P. 1780. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 813 (TWO LINES). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. DATE. -2- from 7.68" to 7.56" If the undershield is put right according to the drawing, the clearance would be 8.18" With 935 wheels this figure would become 8.97" The matter stands therefore that we can obtain by fitting a small flywheel, 935 m {Mr Moon / Mr Moore} /m wheels and making the engine guard to drawing, a road clearance of about 9". We find that the error in fitting the engine guard has occured owing to the fact that the tinsmiths have not worked strictly to drawing, by a verbal arrangement with Mr Spinney. Mr Wormald is arranging for the engine guards to be made in future to drawing. With reference to the question of still further reducing the diameter of the flywheel, we do not think that This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||
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).