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).
Internal communication regarding steering lever and petrol filter issues on the Goshawk II model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan086 | |
| Date | 10th April 1922 | |
| bxe X4086 HY.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} from EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}5/10.4.22. Re. 5 Goshawk II. X4086 We have received this morning your report of the 30th. ult. The steering lever left here on Thursday evening, March 30th. per express post as requested by you in your wire received on the same day, and we wired you accordingly. I took up with the Works the question of sending the necessary tools to fit these levers, but they were emphatic on the fact that the levers would go in place satisfactorily. I arranged, however, for the levers to be actually fitted on standard pivots, also for holes to be properly reamered and suitable bolts to be supplied. I trust you have been able to fix the levers. If not I take it we shall hear from you as to what your requirements are. As regards the petrol filter, do you find this can be easily taken out as on 6 Goshawk II which has now arrived at the Works? In examining this filter I found that the union nut could not be detached without taking out the bottom bolt of the steering box, a point which I am taking up with BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} On 6 Goshawk II I certainly found the filters in a very dirty condition, but I feel, this being a new car, that the dirt and foreign matter may have come from the tank, and eventually worked its way through the tank filter. We are therefore cleaning out the tank and tank filter and petrol system generally and making a fresh start to see how this feature behaves. In the meantime, I have reported the matter as an urgent one requiring attention to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} and am circulating your report as requested. Nothing as yet is definitely settled as regards sending 6 Goshawk II, other than that we are to hold back until we have effected as many improvements as we possibly can, and such as are condoned by R.{Sir Henry Royce} I am hoping, for example, to fix stronger steering levers, but we have not yet settled the design, nor obtained the approval of R.{Sir Henry Royce} nor are we in a position with the present lock-out to produce these levers. I have, however, been urging this matter as being of vital importance, and an alteration which should be done at once, as it is essentially a point which requires testing out, and which will have to be altered prior to any Goshawk cars being delivered. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}' suggestion is that you should be able to take this car when it arrives direct to R.{Sir Henry Royce} so as to have a final consultation as to what essential features will have to be altered for the first production of, say, 50 cars which we think is a good idea, and to which no doubt CJ. will agree. Contd. | ||