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).
Purchase of new development equipment for the Experimental Department.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\2\ scan0225 | |
| Date | 1st August 1939 | |
| 1260. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}8/R.1.8.39. EXPERIMENTAL DEPT. DEVELOPMENT EQUIPMENT. In going round the Vauxhall Engineering Dept., we were impressed by the fact that they possess better testing equipment than we do. We think that if we are to maintain our present position of being 'second to none' with regard to engineering development, we must spend some money in bringing our testing equipment up-to-date. The attached list shows £2,468' worth of apparatus that we should like to purchase. Some of this, such as the power driven dynamometer, was sanctioned a long time ago, but fell into abeyance during the re-building of the Garage. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||