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).
Diagnosing a noise issue by swapping an axle between a Maythorn Saloon and a Barker limousine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 41\3\ Scan247 | |
| Date | 15th December 1922 | |
| To BJ. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to LHS.{Lord Herbert Scott} c. to Ep.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} c. to C. c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Y3730 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/LG15.12.22. NOISY BODIES. BJ12/H14.12.22. We have sent off this morning 7-Goshawk-II chassis fitted with a Maythorn Saloon body. This car should arrive at Conduit Street between 3 and 4-o'clock this afternoon. We considered it was preferable to send a complete car rather than send an axle. The advantages are that you will be able to try the Maythorn Saloon with its axle before it is changed over on to the Barker limousine. After you have tried the car and our man has had the opportunity of listening to the axle on the limousine, we suggest that arrangements should be made for the axle to be changed over from one car to the other during the night so that tomorrow morning, both cars ought to be ready for test with the axles transferred. Having the two cars will be a check as regards what noise can be attributed to the axle. If it happens that the axle off the Maythorn Saloon improves the Barker limousine, there is no reason why that axle should not be left on the limousine and the Maythorn Saloon could return to Derby with the axle off the Barker limousine. We are not suggesting that the axle on 7-Goshawk-II car is ideal. If one drives so as to bring out the noise from the axle it can be easily criticised but it is possible to drive this car for a day without the axle noise thrusting itself upon one. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||