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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 discussing a strategy for stocking Phantom II chassis with various spare wheel and luggage carrier configurations for Australian agents.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 13\5\  Spare05-page077
Date  30th December 1920
  
Pt.4/RH{R. Hollingworth}/30/12-20
87600
By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Derby.
(Copy to Whr.{Mr Wheeler}London
Ha. Derby
Ho.Derby) ✓

Further to my recent letters re Alternative Positions shown on blue print D.51768 in connection with our spare wheel carriers, luggage grid, and side spare wheel carriers on "Phantom II" model,- I have to inform you that we are very much exercised in our minds here as to how to order chassis from London for stock when we have no advance information as to which particular style customer will prefer or perhaps demand. The natural result will be intense confusion, and it seems to me that the only way in which we can get our agents in this country, particularly Dalgety & Co. of Sydney and All British Motors of Melbourne, to tackle the problem is to work out some scheme whereby they shall carry in stock the necessary material to effect change-over to customers' requirements.

My own opinion is that chasses for stock should be equipped as Type 3, carrying both spare wheels at the rear and having no side wheel carriers attached, although the holes for same might be drilled in side members and blocked up with dummy bolts,- this because there is no doubt that this is the ideal position in which to carry the weight, and having no side wheel carriers fitted, there would be no question of unsightliness arising, and also when one considers that only about 20% of our cars actually go on tour, and that perhaps only 10% of their mileage is under tour conditions, it seems to me to be the best scheme to make standard.

If material were sent out to both Dalgety & Co.,Sydney, and All British Motors,Melbourne, to enable them to change the chassis over to either type 1, 2 or 4, fitting one or more side wheel carriers as the case may be, it would be quite a simple matter I imagine for this to be done and for customers' requirements to be satisfied.

As an example of how I suggest the scheme should be worked, let us imagine that the customer requires Type 2,- in which case I suppose the whole of the gear at the rear on Type 3 could be removed and placed in store, and Type 2 substituted. The only thing necessary then to bring our agents back again into position to give choice of any of the 4 types offered would be for them to take care to order their next chassis equipped as Type 2, because they would then have in store Type 3 parts ex the previous change-over, and in this way there would be no chance of our losing sales due to inability to supply from stock the parts demanded by the buyer.
  
  


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