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).
The cost of scrap that a modification to the generator drive brake would create.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 172\1\ img010 | |
| Date | 24th November 1922 | |
| COPY. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from My/JW. My/JW/N1/139A/M24.11.22. X.3522 - BRAKE FOR GENERATOR DRIVE. As requested:- We return herewith copy of above Standardisation Sheet, with Costs filled in. If this modification is brought in forthwith, there will be scrap to the amount of £22- 0- 0 as there are now 406 Housings E.51773 in different stages of manufacture going through the Works. This value will increase, as you will readily understand. My/JW. | ||