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).
Numbered list of engineering tasks and action items for various individuals, concluding with a general instruction to testers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 174\3\ img182 | |
| Date | 12th April 1939 | |
| -2- (12) AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} to instruct frames to be welded on the top only. (13) IMF. to instruct D.O. how to detail the undersheets. (14) Lightened parts for Ripple. AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} to instruct lightened shock damper levers and brake drums. Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} to get lightened bumpers produced. (15) FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} to urge cheaper modified parts. (16) AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} to urge cheaper shock damper connections. .(17) Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} to try proprietary intake silencers. (18) JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} to instruct Ripple tank to have no stone-guard. (19) JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} to see Design to get Buick type filler scheme fitted up on a B.V. (20) FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} to see Design about larger studs for the steering box. (21) JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} to mock up simplified hand brake lever. (22) Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} and IKW. to give a report on fumes in the body. Fumes seem to be getting into 9.B. from under the rear seat. (23) Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} to arrange for 2.B.50 steering to be made similar to that of the Silver Wraith. (24) FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} to see if we can save weight on the Ripple radiator Matrix. (25) RC.{R. Childs} to produce some platinum-pointed plugs for Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} to try. Now that we have a specification for B.V., all testers are asked to consider what simplification and reduction in cost they could carry out on the rationalised parts that have completed 10,000 miles satisfactorily. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||