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).
Letter detailing manufacturing challenges and progress on the Myth Chassis Frame and Body, including repairs, material permits, and drawing issues.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 144\2\ scan0132 | |
| Date | 7th October 1941 | |
| -3- A.{Mr Adams} F.{Mr Friese} Sidgreaves Esq. 7-10-41. (4) MYTH CHASSIS FRAME (contd) hope that it could be repaired here. Some parts were found to be damaged beyond repair, and as replacements could not be promised in a reasonable time I had them made here. We even succeeded in making up a pair of electrodes, but only after a lot of experiment and adjustment. However, eventually we got going, and as a result the frame is at the moment being welded and will be ready for collection on the 10th instant. Incidentally, I would like to mention that before I could commence the manufacture of the Chassis itself, we had to produce wood patterns, and, of course, before these could be started we had to get the timber, which to-day can only be bought against a permit. As your people could not help me with a permit at the time I needed it, I had to do the best I could by "wangling" a bit here and a bit there on permits for War work. (5) MYTH BODY. The same difficulty about the wood patterns operated as with the Myth Chassis Frame, and there were other difficulties peculiar to the Body, some of which were the result of the drawings supplied to us not being so detailed as they might well have been. Again the wings, which we have to buy outside,(we have never had Wing-making facilities here), have given a lot of trouble, due to the drawings having shrunk, and to the fact that they were insufficiently detailed for our Wing Makers, with the result that we had to produce a complete set of new drawings and a number of wooden templates to help them. It is unfortunately a fact that, as I mentioned to you in my letter of the 15th August last, the production of the patterns for this body suffered interference, because we had to concentrate on some Jigs for the De Havilland Company, but under existing conditions this was unavoidable. | ||