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).
Decision not to standardise ventilated undershields, based on a negative report.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 81\1\ scan0183 | |
| Date | 28th July 1913 | |
| R.R. 235A (150 n) (XX. 79. 8.7.13) E.P. 4584. Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}/SM6/C28713. X5245 Ventilated Undershields. X.231 Na.{Mr Nadin} 28-7-13. for Mr. Mills. In reply to your memo EM15/26713, we wish to state we have not obtained the signatures for standardisation, Mr.Hives having reported adversely on them. The following is Mr.Hive's report :- "These did not keep the engine as clean "as the standard, and were very awkward if the "oil filler had to be cleaned or anything "under the car had to be got at. The "whole of the exhaust arrangement had to be "taken down before the undershields would "come off". p. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} [Watermark: DICKINSON BOND 1804 MADE AT CROXLEY] | ||