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).
Departmental memo regarding a delay in axle strain tests due to waiting for a dummy frame.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\1\ Scan026 | |
| Date | 3rd September 1912 | |
| R.R. 475 (100 H) (X 967, 22.5.12) E.P. 1898 ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 813 (TWO LINES). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. Mr Barrington. DATE. 3.9.12 REFERENCE: EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} 31/T3912. 4339 RE AXLE STRAIN TESTS. With reference to Mr Royce's sheet of the 27th ult. your ref TBB7/L22812, in which he mentioned that some long time ago he arranged for me to have some large bulks of timber slung on ropes, opposite each of the back wheels in such a way as to bump the wheels alternately, I would mentionthat we are still waiting the dummy frame for these tests. In reply to Mr Royce I hope the cause of delay wil be explained. E.P. [STAMP: RECEIVED SEP 4 1912] This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||