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Following up on action points arising from a conference's minutes.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 30\2\  Scan199
Date  7th April 1933
  
Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}

X2924.

Worl/GR. {George Ratcliffe} 7.4.33.

MATTERS FOR ATTENTION ARISING OUT
OF MINUTES OF CONFERENCE.

Nov. 29/32.
Minute 14.
Modified Steering Controls.

Further to your memo Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 4/MJ.25.3.33., I shall be glad to know if you have anything further to report in this connection.

Jan. 12/33.
Minute 23.
2 Engines to run at 1000 H.P.

What is the position with regard to these please ?

Jan. 12/33.
Minute 2.
Marles-Weller type steering.

In your memo Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 5/MJ.25.3.33. you stated you expected to have these parts completed in ten or fourteen days' time. Please let me know the position.

Jan. 12/33.
Minute 13.
Radiator Shutters of Drawn Section.

Have you anything further to report please ?

March 9/33.
Minute 4.
Bensport(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley) Generally.
Circlip.
You will notice at the bottom of page 2 of these Minutes it states:-

"Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} said he would also try out buttons in the "ends of the piston pins which we have previously "used."

I shall be glad to know what the result of this experiment was.

Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}
  
  
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).


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