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).
Request to fit locks on test sheds after a car crash and install a new engine test bench.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\1\ Scan037 | |
| Date | 11th October 1920 | |
| To Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} S.O.F.C. x1775 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}8/LGM.11.10.20. Will you please arrange for locks to be fitted on to the Experimental Test House at the back of No.3 Shop. There are no locks at all on these sheds. The other day during the dinner hour, one of the Experimental cars had been run and crashed into the bench. Will you also please instruct the Millwrights to proceed with fixing a Test Bench suitable for a 40/50 engine in the same Test House as the Goshawk Test Bench. RECEIVED Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 18 OCT 1920 | ||