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).
Internal query about the testing, fitting, and historical performance of rear spring wearing plates.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 80\2\ scan0365 | |
| Date | 21th December 1920 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. BJ2/H21.12.20. X4209 X.4209 - Rear springs - Wearing Plates. Can you please inform me:- 1. Whether these wearing plates have received a test equal to 10,000 miles? 2. Whether chassis in future will be fitted with the type of spring for which this wearing plate is required? 3. If we are about to fit similar springs to those which were in use before the war. Did we have similar complaints in regard to those springs? B.J. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AT17.12.20. [STAMP] SN{Mr Sanderson} DEC 21 1920 RECEIVED | ||