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).
Cost savings on instrument boards by using sheet metal stampings instead of aluminium castings.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 179\2\ img157 | |
| Date | 2nd January 1932 | |
| -2- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.1/AR.2.1.32 contd. Assuming £1 tool charge extra per patch for the first 240 we should therefore save £10 per instrument board. The Smith panel follows our shape and design but is made of sheet metal stampings instead of aluminium castings like the present one, and the fixing of the instruments has been simplified. It is proposed to fit the Smith instruments and patch on the next car to run in France. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/wst. | ||