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).
Conference opinions on managing stores, assessing material value, and disposing of old or rejected stock.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\6\ Scan138 | |
| Date | 30th July 1920 guessed | |
| -2- actually being used for production, repair or experimental purposes should be sent there. It was also the opinion of the conference that the Drawing Office and Order Office should visit these stores whenever the occasion becomes necessary (perhaps once a week) with a view to seeing whether the material in the Stores Clearing House would be of any value for future production, repairs, or experimental, and to put on one side any material which would not be of value for the above. If any of this rejected material is not usable for production, repairs or experimental, it would then be the business of the Order Office to get rid of it at the best possible price. With regard to material of which the conference are of the opinion there is quite a certain amount) which has been in our Stores for some years, representatives of the Order Office and Drawing Office have undertaken to go through these stores and see if any can be made use of, either for the production of the next 500 chassis or for repairs to older chassis, or could be made use of in any other way, and any material which is of no use to be disposed of at the best possible prices. The Conference were of the opinion that only a small building, such as a Test House, would be quite big enough for this Stores Clearing House; the smaller the house, up to a point, being better; as it would stop any accumulation of materials which are bringing in no return to the company. ------------------------- | ||