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).
List of essential requirements for setting up an experimental garage at Shardlow.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\1\ scan0034 | |
| Date | 26th September 1934 | |
| To EJJ. x3269 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}18/KW.26.9.34. Experimental Garage at Shardlow. Referring to this garage, if we take the experimental building at Chateauroux as having established what is required over a long period of time, we think that the essentials are as follows :- (1) Adequate heating. (2) Adequate roof lighting for at least one half of the garage. (3) A small glass-covered enclosure in one corner of the garage, about 12' x 8' floor, where records can be kept and reports written out. (4) A small expanded metal stores where tyres, oil, special tools etc. can be kept and locked up by the person responsible for them. (5) A light drilling machine with grindstone. (6) A bench fitted with 3 vices and a drawer for each vice, one section to be metal covered for soldering. (7) One of the existing pits to be cleaned out and increased in size to be made comparable to the pits we are at present using in the shop. (8) A plug-in socket for pit lamps. (9) Electric soldering iron. (10) Pulley blocks for the beam to enable a car to be lifted for the removal of axle, etc. (11) A water supply with hose is really almost essential to enable cars to be at least partially cleaned before work is undertaken. (12) A Telephone Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||