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).
Condition of front wings, their replacement, and the potential of rust-proofed steel wings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\2\ scan0010 | |
| Date | 13th December 1933 | |
| 1369 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}....from Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Copy to Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} re:- FRONT WINGS. You will see from a memo to Messrs. Park Ward & Co., that we are suggesting that you might agree to send to them the wings now on 1-B-3 as soon as they are dismantled. We agree that these wings have done 20,000 miles in France and are no worse than the average, but we feel we ought to do better in the future. An examination of these wings by ourselves, the coachbuilder and the wing maker, might help us to improve the design and fixing. We may have to return to steel wings, and we would like to suggest that whilst our people are in America, it might be useful to learn all we can about the treatment of steel wings, with a view to their being rendered rust proof. Over here, the high-class coachbuilder still has grave doubts about the prevention of rusting and blistering. Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} [Handwritten] Messrs Park Wards say that they expect the wings to be ready to go to Derby on Tuesday next. Do you want them to come up + mount them? Please speak to me. on 3p. phone tomorrow. (Dodd). | ||