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).
Internal directive about maintaining testing standards, prioritizing quality and the reputation for 'silkiness and silence' over delivery pressures.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\2\ Scan102 | |
| Date | 22th July 1922 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- should not pass test. Testing officials must not be lured off the path of their duty by representation from Sales Officials and others that delivery is of prime importance. Quality is of primary importance and delivery must never stand before quality. The officials of the Company should take opportunities as often as possible of riding in repair cars which were made before the War and which are considered good examples of the silkiness and silence which made the reputation of R.R. cars and should refuse to pass for delivery cars which do not promise to have similar silkiness and silence. The speed and power serpant has got to be killed before it further poisons the Company. CJ. | ||