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).
Response rejecting a suggestion to place the shutter control on the steering column due to engineering constraints.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 39\4\ Scan086 | |
| Date | 1st March 1929 | |
| X3499 Hm.{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} SG.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} c. to DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to PN.{Mr Northey} RA/M5. 3. 29. SHUTTER CONTROL. X.7250 X.3499 Many thanks for your suggestion of having theshutter control on the steering column. It is quite good, but it would require some very considerable alterations because the present inner tubes are too feeble and springy. The shutter control should be robust so that it can be finely set notch by notch, always coming to the same degree of opening in the same notch, a fault that many of our competitors suffer from. You will remember in the earlier days much adverse criticism was made to the multiplicity of our controls. Now nearly everyone has similar. The same was said of our complicated refinements in aero engines, now all aero engines are much the same, rather more so than our Eagles. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||