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).
Reduction of 40/50HP chassis output from over forty to thirty-five per week and the consequent need to cut departmental establishment charges.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\1\ Scan053 | |
| Date | 1st February 1921 | |
| X.1775 COPY. DJ13/H1.2.21. To Bn.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} Hm.{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} Copies to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} LHS.{Lord Herbert Scott} C. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} R.{Sir Henry Royce} Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} PN.{Mr Northey} A.{Mr Adams} Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} Br.{T. E. Bellringer - Repair Manager} D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead} Hl. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} HO. wp. Our output during the past has arisen to over forty 40/50HP chassis a week, and our establishment and staff were more than sufficient to deal with this. It has become necessary to reduce this output to thirty-five chassis per week. A reduction to thirty-five is equal to a curtailment of our output by more than one-eighth. It will be appreciated that we must make an equivalent reduction in our establishment charges or considerably add to the selling price of our chassis. It is not considered possible tomsell our chassis at a higher price. Your Department, (like all others) is now based on an output of forty-five chassis per week. It is therefore essential that the establishment charges of your department shall be cut down forthwith by about one-fifth, as many of the establishment charges throughout the business are fixed and therefore cannot be cut down even though the output is reduced. Will you kindly let me know as soon as possible how you propose to carry out this reduction, and in what way, if any, you consider it will adversely affect the Company. B.J. (upside down text at bottom) R.R. 288A.(100M.) (T.S.) 642. 19-2-20(G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp}) 2618 | ||