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).
The difficulty in getting Disposal Stores to accept returned parts without a fault diagnosis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\1\ Scan074 | |
| Date | 21th June 1921 | |
| X1775 To D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to WDR. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}2/LG21.6.21. DISPOSAL STORES. You will remember that when the Disposal Stores was first started, it was arranged that they should accept all material or parts in any state. We still have great difficulty in getting this Stores to accept parts. To-day, for instance, we returned to them a Watford Magneto, they refused to accept this magneto until we told them what was the matter with it. We think this is quite wrong. The scheme was for them to accept everything they could lay their hands on and that they should then find out its value. It means that if all parts are going to be criticised when they are returned to the Disposal Stores they will never get returned but lay about until they become obsolete or damaged and worthless. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||