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).
Inquiry into the failure of a 20 HP spare wheel bracket.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 103\5\ scan0035 | |
| Date | 16th March 1923 | |
| X4085 To BJ. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} c. to Th. (Ps.f) Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/LG16.3.23 RE. 20 HP. SPARE WHEEL BRACKET. BJ2/H16.3.23. We have heard of no previous failure of the spare wheel bracket. It is very difficult to conceive how this bracket could fail under normal conditions. The failure may have been caused by faulty brazing or by a defective casting. We should like to have immediately full particulars of the failure - we wish to know :- 1. Whether either of the steel tubes have broken. 2. Whether the bronze casting has broken. 3. Whether the tube has broken away from the casting owing to defective brazing. MADE AT CROXLEY Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||