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).
Internal memorandum regarding fitting Borg & Beck clutches to 20/25 HP cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 103\1\ scan0221 | |
| Date | 18th February 1936 | |
| S/W......Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} E -------- X572 C13/C18.2.36 Re 20/25 h.p.CLUTCHES. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}9/MJ12.2.36 -------- We note you think the best means of correcting bad cases on existing cars is to fit the Borg & Beck clutch. We presume the next step would be to issue a standardisation sheet and instruct Depots. You do not reply to the query we made regarding paragraph 2 of Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/KW31.1.36, wherein it was mentioned that a standardisation sheet was completed on the 30th October for a clutch having several times the life of the one now giving trouble,"but at the time Sales thought it was not so smooth on the take-up and turned it down." We have looked through our file and cannot find that we ever turned this down; on the contrary we do find the attached two memos. on this matter. C. Enc. C20/C25.1.35 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/MJ28.2.35 | ||