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).
Standardization of screen wiper brackets for the Wraith, Bentley, and P.lll chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 132\3\ scan0184 | |
| Date | 14th October 1938 | |
| C O P Y. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} at W. ------- Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}9/AH.14.10.38. ------- SCREEN WIPERS. ------- As you know, with the Wraith you do not give away a bracket to carry the screen wiper motor, although you are, at our request, kindly fitting in the dashboard studs which will carry the makers own bracket to support the motor of the Lucas wiper. We suggest that the Bentley and P.lll chassis shall be brought into line. Now that the Lucas wiper has satisfied the Experimental Dept., we want to fit it wherever possible because we are able to buy it at a considerably lower price than alternative prices. Moreover, it is going to help us with our coachbuilders to standardise one wiper regardless of the type of chassis. As, at the moment, you give away wiper motor brackets on the Bentley and P.lll, we take it that there would be no objection to immediately discontinue this practice even if it means you do not use up a certain number of brackets already manufactured, and that you could, as you are doing in the case of the Wraith, fit studs to carry the Lucas motor bracket. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||