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).
Possibility of reducing the testing mileage required for an improvement before production.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\5\ scan0034 | |
| Date | 24th January 1928 | |
| To EWT. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} X3994 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/LG24.1.28. X4117. on Free of Charge work. With reference to EWT10/T10.1.28. re. Conference 17.1.28. This was really answered in Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/LG Briefly we want to examine the possibility of cutting down the time taken for an improvement to reach the customer, by subjecting the alteration to an intelligent scrutiny to see whether it is necessary to hold it up for the completion of 10,000 miles before starting to make the bits. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||