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).
Cutting down the time for an improvement to reach the customer, by scrutinizing if it is necessary to wait for 10,000 miles of testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 47\2\ Scan059 | |
| Date | 24th January 1928 | |
| X417 To EWT. from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 3/LG24.1.28. X3994 With reference to EWT10/T10.1.28. re. Conference on Free of Charge work. This was really answered in Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 3/LG 17.1.28. Briefly we want to examine the possibility of cutting down the time taken for an improvement to reach the customer, by subjecting the alteration to an intelligent scrutiny to see whether it is necessary to hold it up for the completion of 10,000 miles before starting to make the bits. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||