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).
Relaying Mr. Royce's reasons for not proceeding with a proposed piston turning machine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 76\2\ scan0032 | |
| Date | 6th June 1912 | |
| X632 x759 Mr Whitehead. 6.6.12. TBB4/L6612. Re piston turning machine. With reference to your proposed piston turning machine, Mr Royce writes on June 3rd as follows :- "I am in receipt of Mr Whitehead's suggestion for a piston turning machine, for which I thank him very much. I should not propose to make such a machine because of the following reasons:- 1. Unless the work cannot be done satisfactorily by the present machine or can be done very much more rapidly and better by a special machine, I think we are too full up with work to make any special machines. 2. It must be considered that unless we require a number of machines that the cost of a single machine must include the cost, not only of making the machine, but the enormous cost of the | ||