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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).
Requirements for shop equipment, drawings, and jigs needed for body production, including time and resource estimates.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 117\3\  scan0300
Date  14th February 1941
  
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Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary}

SHOP EQUIPMENT.

The main body assembly jig has been made. Trucks for the assembly line are made and in the possession of Park Ward. The tracks for these have to be laid in the Works. A hoist for body mounting has to be obtained and installed. Storage racks also have to be made for components.

The paint shop has to be re-arranged, new spraying booths built, heating equipment and an exhaust system installed in them. Metal cleaning and washing equipment installed for preparation of bodies and wings before painting.

We estimate that the time required to carry out this work will be 3 months which is dependent on the number of men employed and the delivery of any equipment that may be required.

DRAWINGS.

As the original full-size drawing of this body is very dilapidated, a new one should be made and checked with the existing wood model and, where detail drawings have not been completed or made, this should be done. As a wood model is in existence, it will not be necessary for a full lay-out to be made. It should, however, contain sufficient information to enable important dimensions and sufficient data for the essential detail drawings to be taken from it, and also to serve as a record. The time required to carry out this work is estimated from 1000 to 1200 man hours.

The arrangement made that six bodies should be built from the first sample set of parts supplied by Motor Panels, and that Park Ward should make the necessary adjustments and mount to chassis, has been carried out.

The following six that were to have been built for the purpose of checking and correcting jigs and tools ready for production, have not been started, owing to conditions prevailing.

REMARKS.

From the foregoing, it will be seen that there is a considerable amount of work to be done before production can commence.

We estimate that it will take a minimum of two months and possibly three, to carry out the necessary work and get ready for production.
  
  


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