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).
Letter to Donald Sessions & Co Ltd regarding issues with jacks fitted to an experimental car and a missing component.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 26\3\ Scan125 | |
| Date | 6th February 1932 | |
| X3117. Ha/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}4/MA. February 6th, 1932. Donald Sessions & Company Ltd. 906 Harrow Road Willesden, London, N.W.10. Dear Sirs, We beg to thank you for your letter of the 5th. inst. With regard to the set of jacks you fitted to one of our Experimental cars we would like to return the handle (9:1 ratio) to you for examination, there appears to be excessive slack in the ball race at the top end of the 'torque tube', in addition the telescopic square section tube has been bent with what we believe to be fair use, there appears to be insufficient support for this when fully extended. Before we return this to you we would like you to send us another replacement handle so that the system is not put out of commission. Apart from these failings the jacks are satisfactory and we propose to transfer them to another car which will be sent out to the Continent (possible round about Easter time) for extended chassis road tests. At the conclusion of these tests we shall be in a position to give you more information on their behaviour. In the meantime we should be glad to hear your remarks on the handle failure. We have made enquiries concerning the sectional Jack Screw believed to have been left here, but cannot find any trace of it. One of our men states that he saw it in your box of bits at 5-30 pm on the evening you fitted the jacks, i.e. immediately before you left here; if we should find it we will of course forward it on. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS ROYCE LIMITED. | ||