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).
Suggestions for the chassis tool kit and spares.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 20\8\ Scan018 | |
| Date | 27th April 1921 | |
| BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} c. to Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to BY c. to PN.{Mr Northey} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X.1027 Ep{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}2/F27.4.21. X.1102 X.1027 RE CHASSIS TOOL KIT AND SPARES. We have gone into carefully through the kit of tools and spares as supplied with each chassis and cannot suggest any manner in which the kit may be reduced in value or weight without interfering with its efficiency. With regard to the four suggestions from Sales - 1. The supplying of a suitable tool for grinding valves. There appears to be a need for this, the screwdriver supplied being useless for the job. The shop tool is usually improvised from a worn out file suitably ground to fit the slot in valve head. It would be inadvisable to fit a cranked tool for this purpose which would enable anyone to rotate the valve. A suggestion is that E.1776 the spanner for adjusting oil pump might be formed at one end to be suitable for the purpose. 2. Gudgeon pin extractor - whether the ordinary man in charge of a chassis would be justified when touring, in leaving this tool at home? Why was this tool provided in the tool kit? The principle of this tool was evolved by the Test Dept. and it was suggested by us that the tool should be supplied to all our Depots. We think it might be deleted from the standard tool kit, also the small box spanner and tommy bar, for the gudgeon pin locking screws. 3. Should not some of the spanners be double ended? This evidently refers to either the C spanners or the box spanners. If the former, it would be impracticable to make these double ended, as it would then be impossible to use the extension piece provided, which is necessary in order to get sufficient leverage. If the box spanners are referred to, there would be no reduction in cost of producing if these were made double ended, and there would be no reduction in weight as they would in almost every instance have to be made approximately twice the present length. Contd. | ||