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).
Secret memorandum detailing cost-reduction modifications to the pedals for the Wraith III model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\5\ scan0145 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1937 | |
| 1260 fm th BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} C.E. Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} SECRET. E/HDY.{William Hardy}1/HP.3.3.37. WRAITH III. We send herewith N.Sch.5058 showing modifications to the pedals to reduce cost by deleting the brazing. The bosses on the pedal forgings have had to be elongated and the cost of the forgings has therefore been increased, but it is thought that the saving in other respects will considerably outweigh the forging increase. The bosses are reamed right through, and the plain bushes are pressed in without endwise location to prevent them from going further down the bosses. However, it is thought that there is no likelihood of this happening. N.Sch.5058 herewith. E/HDY.{William Hardy} | ||