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).
Request for information on proposed changes to the central lubrication system and the failure of a front battery suspension.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 47\3\ Scan161 | |
| Date | 12th August 1931 | |
| HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} FROM DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} X4117 DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}1/M12.8.31. 10,000 MILE TEST IN FRANCE. X.7941 X.4117 X.3806 X.6055. With reference to HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/RM{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/AD5831.. and HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}1/KT29731., we should like some more information about the changes that is proposed to make on the central lubrication system. We should also like further particulars when you obtain them of the failure of the front battery suspension. We believe that the arrangement fitted is not that originally designed at WW., but a modification originated in Derby. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||