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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).
Expressing frustration over significant delays in the standardisation of battery ignition tungsten points.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 35\6\  scan 340
Date  20th October 1927
  
V2894

HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} / EFG. } FROM R.{Sir Henry Royce}

[strikethrough]C-in-C Bl. WOR{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}[strikethrough]

R2/M20.10.27.

BATTERY IGNITION - TUNGSTEN POINTS. Y8692

I do not know whether these have yet been made standard, and I cannot understand why we have not received a report on the behaviour of the scrubbing points that we have sent you, which is so suitable for standardisation. This has been hanging on from month to month until I am sure it is high time WOR.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} looked into it, and transferred the work to another dept.

The pieces requisitioned on our drawings LeC. 2460/1. dated 15/17. Sept. 1927. could have been made in the same number of hours as they appear to have taken months. This job has never moved at a speed of more than 10% of what it should have done: I cannot permit it to go on.

R.{Sir Henry Royce}
  
  


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