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).
To Mr. Johnson regarding the process and importance of communicating and documenting design alterations and standardization sheets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 78\1\ scan0091 | |
| Date | 1st June 1920 guessed | |
| Mr. Johnson - 3. Mr. Bailey should send us a memo telling us the relative importance of the changes instructed, and to attach to this memo a copy of the Standardization Sheet. This Standardization Sheet should be sent to us at the same time as it is distributed in England for signature, and we should have further advice as soon as the signatures are obtained. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} We are receiving from two to three hundred alterations a month, of which one can say that not one in fifty can be considered of the first order of importance. As a rule, we receive no notification that an alteration is contemplated until we receive the alteration sheet and the blue prints. We receive alteration sheets and blue prints for important alterations, such as a change in pistons, by the same method & with no more importance attached to it than in the case of a minor change, such as change of a limit, for example; when, as a matter of fact, an important change like the change in piston should be sent through by post haste with alteration sheet and blue print attached, and a memo from Mr. Bailey pointing out to us the importance of this. SUMMARY: All of the above gives only one concrete example of how a change effects us, and the importance of considering these matters from our stand point as well as from England's standpoint in production. Yours very truly, Encl: 1. | ||