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).
Proposal for the establishment and operation of a weight section for engine projects.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 132\2\ scan0079 | |
| Date | 15th January 1940 | |
| -2- (b) The person responsible for the weight section should be acquainted with the projects for future engines, and work schedules in the shop. (c) The weight section should have the full co-operation of the Experimental Shop. (d), There should be sufficient increase in the personel to deal expeditiously with the increase in work. This should include a typist and a photographer on whom the weight section would have first claim, but who could also do work for other departments when they had time. Suggested System on which the weight Section should Operate. Sufficient space should be available in which to kee a file for every L.O.P. section on each engine. As L.O.P.'s become available the typist should make a copy of them, with piece numbers. These should be filed and the weights be filled in as they become available, so that the weight filing section would eventually develop into a reference library of weights, and also from time to time issue weight sheets to the various departments. It would seem that the most satisfactory system of work would be for one person to be responsible for obtaining and filing the weights of new parts on experimental engines, and two more whose whole time job is the full weight analysis with photographs. To obtain the best results from the proposed system it would be essential that the work of obtaining, correlating, and issuing weights should be centralised, the need arises therefore for an office where the work of the section could be efficiently carried on, and which could be keep locked when complete engines were stripped for weighing, and inspection, by the design staff. Owing to the imminence of the departure of the chassis section, it is important that the foregoing points should receive attention, and some action be taken, if the aero weight analysis is to continue. Lr{Mr Ellor}/Cr.{Mr Cra???ster / Mr Chichester} | ||