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).
Meeting notes discussing material supply, labour continuity, and the cost implications for production.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\6\ Scan096 | |
| Date | 18th May 1920 guessed | |
| -2- There is also the important question of keeping a continuity of labour together; with such a quality product as ours it is always wrong to keep changing good labour, and this, of course, necessitates ordering fairly large supplies of material. Possibly it is necessary to order material sufficient to keep a continuity of employment of our machines, and risk introducing improvements and scrapping any material where it is necessary to improve a car, rather than the doubtful policy of ordering smaller quantities of material, and so making it impossible to keep our factory going efficiently and increasing the cost of that material. Before the War we were able to get fairly good deliveries of material within three months; at the present time that period is considerably increased. It is, therefore, very essential that Design, Sales, and Works should arrive at the best solution to this problem. Meeting was still discussing this very important matter when it was adjourned. They will carry on with this discussion tomorrow. ----------- | ||