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).
Letter concerning the design of a bumper bar and sourcing of oil cooler elements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\2\ scan0246 | |
| Date | 4th March 1940 | |
| 1021 / 1023. COPY. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/MH.{M. Huckerby} 4th. March, 1940. C.L.Breeden, Esq., Messrs. Wilmot Breeden Ltd., Eastern Works, Camden Street, BIRMINGHAM, 1. Dear Breeden, Thank you for your letter of February 28th. I have no more samples of the oil cooler elements. I could probably get some more from America, but it would take several months. We have received the bumper bar. Somehow we have got to produce a bumper which has no protuberances on its front surface except the 2 over-riders and a motif in the centre. A number of small bolt heads coming through the face of the bumper bar, whatever their shape, are not in keeping with the general severity of outline of the Rolls-Royce radiator. We have got to attach the bolts carrying the leaf spring to the bumper bar without their heads projecting through. Whether it is possible to hydrogen-braze steel strips into the back of the main bumper strip, I do not know, but we will discuss the matter with you when we come over to look at the body hardware I suppose you do not expect the finish of a hand produced sample to approach that which you can obtain on the mass-produced article, but of course, this particular sample does not compare in this respect with the bumper bars produced by Ridlington in small quantities. Yours sincerely, | ||