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).
Advising against designing an aero engine and chassis concurrently to avoid interruptions and manage workload.
| Identifier | Morton\M13.1\ img010 | |
| Date | 8th January 1920 | |
| To CJ. from R.{Sir Henry Royce} -2- R5/G6/1/20 Contd. too slow an operation. I should advise that we do not tackle two or more big jobs together, such as we might be tempted to do if we design an aero engine at the same time as a chassis. We are sure to have a large number of interruptions, even if we only have one big piece of work in hand. Col. Barrington, Mr. Day, and Mr. Elliott, as well as myself, are always on the look out in the current technical journals for the trend of design and invention and practice, and I quite agree that it will be necessary for some of us to endeavour to obtain information at exhibitions and other works and flying grounds as is available without breaking off from the current work more than is reasonable. Actually we obtain excellent reports in such papers as the "Aeroplane", and the current technical literature, that would save us the loss of time of travelling, say to Paris, or Italy, when the exhibitions are far away, as this might result in one having very little time to do anything else. R.{Sir Henry Royce} S.D. 8 JAN 1920 RECEIVED | ||