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).
Raising concerns about delays and process changes for testing steel artillery wheels.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 53\3\ Scan209 | |
Date | 20th January 1927 | |
X4886 S/W. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Sgl/H/20.1.27. Re: Steel Artillery Wheels. [Handwritten note in left margin] Ho will you reply to this & will you give me your comments As for BY(3). Replying to BY17/H18.1.27. - I have gone over this matter very carefully with C. and we have discussed it with B.J. who asks me to enquire from you :- 1). How long the sample sets of wheels have been at W. - both 40/50 HP. and 20 HP. [Handwritten note: -14th Dec.] 2). What has been the cause of the delay in starting the bumping test, which, last November, it was agreed it was the right course to pursue. [Handwritten note: not yet rec'd] 3). What dates the bumping tests can be started and when they can be completed. 4). What tests have been made of the actual wheels and tyres in regard to wheel wobbles and whether, with enclosed bodies fully loaded and at high speeds over rough roads, underconditions met with by Customers. B.J. asks me to specially stress the fact that as neither Dunlop's nor our own people at W. realised that if the filing down of the welding on the earlier types of wheels caused trouble, he feels there may be some other reason for failure in connection with these new wheels and therefore hesitates to act on your suggestion that Production sets should be ordered without any test at all. He is very distressed to find that after agreeing last November to forego the 10,000 miles test on your special recommendation and to accept bumping tests instead, that the bumping test has not even been started, despite the urgency of the matter and that a totally different view is now taken regarding the elimination of even the bumping test. Sgd. [Handwritten Signature] | ||