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 failure of a battery box flange on chassis 23-EX and its replacement with a reinforced part.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 11\3\ 03-page048 | |
Date | 23th April 1930 | |
To: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} From G.W.H [Handwritten] DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} BY [Handwritten] X7940 Hôtel de France Châteauroux. 23/4/30 [Handwritten] X5535 CHASSIS 23-EX.- We have held the car up owing to the failure of the Battery Box Flange. We have fitted a reénforced flange to try and prevent this flange from failing. We herewith send you a [handwritten correction: sketch] squeach showing were the flange failed and [handwritten correction: how] who we have refitted it up. This is the part that as broken previously on other cars. G.W.H. [Signature] | ||