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 to C.W. Ward of Park Ward, Ltd. detailing issues with sliding seat fittings and proposing a solution.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 117\3\ scan0441 | |
| Date | 8th May 1941 | |
| 1021 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/EAG.2/ET. 8th May, 1941. C.W. WARD, Esq., Messrs. Park Ward, Ltd., 473 High Road - Willesden, LONDON. N.W. 10. Dear Mr. Ward, You will undoubtedly remember that, a few months ago, we had trouble through the sliding seat fittings on the driver's seat of one of our cars collapsing. The fittings were LEVERALL Mark V/DZ. The trouble was that the flange on the portion attached to the seat split at the end. We have now got the same trouble on the Ripplet body. The top slides are also attached to the seat in an unsatisfactory manner. The only support that it has is at the ends, so that, by having no support in the centre of the fitting, it allows it to bend. We shall overcome this by putting some pieces of angle steel between the two cross members of the seat, and attaching the slides to these. The slides are also fixed in such a manner that it is only the angle of the flanges that prevent the seat from moving sideways and the slides disengaging; the rough sketch below shews to what I refer. | ||