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).
Finalisation of scuttle isolation drawings and the use of rubber buffers.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\V\October1930-February1931\ Scan140 | |
| Date | 11th December 1930 | |
| PY. FROM DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Copy to - HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AJL. Copy to - EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} Copy to - OX/HN.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Copy to - JLR. ORIGINAL SCUTTLE ISOLATION. We all seem to have written a great deal on this subject, and in the end we are thoroughly muddled. P. 2. - N. 2. SERIES. We think that the scuttle isolation drawing finally submitted to us by BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} is adequate and satisfactory as far as we are concerned. We must leave it to EF. and HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} to settle on the degree of compressibility of the rubbers, and of their initial thickness. It will be appreciated that it is utterly impossible for us here to make any such decision on a drawing-board. 25HP. We agree that for the time being we should not shew the side rubber buffers, but that we should try them on some experimental cars because we believe that if they are good on P. 2. they might be good on the smaller car. We hope that this will clear the matter up as far as we are concerned, and that a settlement may be reached among yourselves as to the desirable degree of compression of the rubbers, so that this might be indicated by mention on the prints, and so that prints may be in the hands of coachbuilders as soon as possible so that we may get some degree of uniformity on this rather serious matter throughout the whole of our coachbuilders. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||