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).
Procedure for standardisation sheets, including costs and delays, with a specific note on 20/25 HP crankshafts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154a\3\ scan0048 | |
| Date | 21th June 1932 | |
| X3066. To Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/MJ.21.6.32. RE. STANDARDISATION SHEETS. Replying to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}3/T20.6.32. The procedure which was agreed upon for Standardisation Sheets, was that the sheets should be sent around to all officials except the Managing Director without costs. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}'s sheet always has the costs before he receives it. A copy of the final Standardisation Sheet complete with all the signatures is sent to all officials as soon as Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} has signed his sheet, and on this sheet the cost is given. As regards the question of 20/25 HP. crankshafts, the original price for these forgings was ridiculously high. It was a price which we could never put on a Standardisation Sheet to R.{Sir Henry Royce} because it would have looked so obviously ridiculous. In Roy.{Sir Henry Royce}&/MG.7.6.32 it states that Vickers are prepared to supply crankshafts in V.C.M. Steel for the same figure as the present standard crankshaft, which means that the additional charge will be the cost of nitriding. If we are going to obtain costs before we issue a Standardisation Sheet we are sure this is going to involve us in delay or else we shall get costs which do not mean very much. It frequently takes three months from the time we send a sheet to the Cost Office to the time we get it returned. In fact it often happens that the parts are actually being fitted to the car before we get the completed sheet. We suggest it might be useful if we had a talk over this point with G/Rb.{R. Bowen}. Because the present scheme is working reasonably satisfactorily and therefore before we change it would be as well to discuss the possible difficulties in the new arrangement. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||