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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).
Summary of cost figures from a conference discussing reductions in vehicle body costs.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 161a\1\  scan0071
Date  12th February 1940
  
1381, 1021 & R's Policy file

SUMMARY OF COST FIGURES GIVEN BY WARD AT
CONFERENCE ON MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 12TH, 1940.

ACTUAL REDUCTION DUE TO TOOLS

£ s. d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}
No Tools. Wings 18 12 6
Panel Body without Doors 26 10 -

Component parts, Pillars,
Wheel Arches.
Bottom Sides, Cant Rails 13 - - (Lab.)
and framing and panelling 1 - - (Mat.)
of doors.
Overheads 13 - -

No assembly. £ 72 2 6


Motor Panels.
All the same parts 52 12 -
Tool cost (over 500) 15 5 8

£ 67 17 8


REDUCTION IN BODY COST OVER
AND ABOVE THE £266.

Present Cost of Shell Proposed Cost of Shell

£ 54 4 - £40 inc. tools £10

4 4 - (Tools over spread over £50,000.
( 1000
£ 58 8 - SAVING £18. 8. 0d


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