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).
Modifications to the double level device side filler and petrol gauge.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154\3\ scan0104 | |
| Date | 28th August 1920 | |
| X3687 R5/G28.8.20. To Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} Copy to CJ. " " BJ. " " Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} " " Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} " " EFC. X.3888. " " By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} X.3687. " " Ov. RE DOUBLE LEVEL DEVICE SIDE FILLER AND PETROL GAUGE. You will see that the suggestions I have made enable the double level pieces to be of less weight and bulk, more symmetrical, and require less skilled labour, and therefore well worth the trouble of modifying the drawing. It is understood that most of the pieces will be made in pressure castings in brass, and that there would be the minimum of hand work and machining upon them. I hope you and the instrument shop will be able to make excellent progress with these parts made specially for the American production. At the same time it would be as well to have right and left hand ones, so that we can fit them to the English made cars also, should they prove preferable in the eyes of the Sales Dept. It will be noticed that all these fittings are additions to an already fairly complicated chassis, and therefore undesirable, unless there is a definite demand for them by the buyers. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||