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).
Instructing a change in bonnet production, discontinuing shutters and offering plain or louvred alternatives.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 66\3\ scan0169 | |
| Date | 4th May 1927 | |
| RECEIVED MAY 4 1927 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X8260 Dept. (struck through) c. Order Office. c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ------------------- BY4/H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} 4.5.27. ------------------- In view of R's memo reference R13/M.29.4.27. in which he says that in future we must not supply bonnets with shutters, that our production must consist of:- a/- a standard scheme of a plain bonnet with no shutters. b/- a bonnet with louvred sides, will you kindly arrange to modify our part lists so that it conforms with this instruction. The Order Office will of course have to buy their bonnet sides without having the holes blanked out for the shutters. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} By | ||