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).
Quarterly note suggesting a new procedure to ensure standardisation sheets are completed before modified parts go into production.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 29\2\ Scan081 | |
| Date | 12th December 1922 | |
| COPY. To CJ. - from Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}3/M12/12/22. Quarterly Note. ----------- CJ3/E11/12/22. I return Mr.Whitehead's note and from a safety point of view I think there is a good deal in what he says. Naturally the tendency of the Experimenter and Designer is to get improvements and modifications on the chassis or aero engines, or anything that we are producing, at the earliest possible moment, and sometimes in their zeal and anxiety are apt to try and get a move on the job, unconsciously, without a standardisation sheet. I have taken a good deal of pains lately to try and safeguard this position, realising that it might be possible for things to get on to our products without standardisation sheets, even though the best possible regulations had been made. I therefore suggest that Mr.Whitehead might be supplied in every case with a copy of the completed standardisation sheet, to be sent to him at the same time as the Order Office is instructed to order up material and instruct the Works to put into production modified or altered parts, and that he should be instructed that in no case should he order material or give the Works instructions until he has satisfied himself that a standardisation sheet has been sent to him, and that everybody is in agreement that the part or parts are standardised. There is no object to be served in Mr.Whitehead signing the standardisation sheet, it already takes toolong to get signed at the present time. Enc. | ||