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Alternative design for the car's tool kit, from a three-fold to a two-fold satchel.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 79\2\  scan0149
Date  9th September 1919
  
X 1027

To DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} from R. {Sir Henry Royce}
Copy to CJ.
" " BN. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington}
" " EH.
" " BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
" " EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer}

R6/G1/9/19.

X.3834 RE TOOL KIT.

As an alternative for the tool kit for the car,
I think we might arrange to get the tools easily stowed in
a two-fold satchel instead of a three-fold. This could be
fitted with handles like a bag, and would be easier to lift
out and open.

This would be somewhat after the style of a brief
bag as recommended by Sir Hercules Langlish.

Considering the increase in handiness and the
fact that it ought not to take more than half the leather,
I am sure it would be worth while experimenting with. The
present arrangement is unhandy, and requires too much
ground to lay it out; it is irritating.

I should be glad to know that the present
folder, at the present price of leather, costs.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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