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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).
Production delays and quality control, proposing to scrap parts to avoid sending out cars with known faults.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 163\7\  img025
Date  1st June 1921 guessed
  
contd. -3-

and the switch will be more expensive.

The point we wish to bring to everybody's notice is that owing to the sudden reduction in out-put, many essential improvements are going to be considerably delayed unless we scrap and cancel the present parts. We think that it is quite wrong to continue to send out cars which we know have definite faults.


Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

(faint text in bottom left corner, possibly a printer's mark: (12 'B' 100-10-18) OF 1970)
  
  


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