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).
With a sketch requesting an experimental, strengthened bracket for the front silencer.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\6\ Scan158 | |
| Date | 28th May 1930 | |
| -2- of the front silencer. [DIAGRAM LABELS] FRONT SILENCER BRACKET STIFFENED BY BOLTING ON ANGLE IRON HERE ENGINE CRANKCASE Will BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} please draw out and issue experimentally a strengthened bracket on these lines. The alteration is urgently required because nearly every car leaves the works with a distorted stay. Copy of Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer}12/T28.5.30. attached (E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} and Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}). HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AJL. | ||