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).
Issues with controls, tools, and the rear petrol tank on a Goshawk-11 car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\2\ Scan395 | |
| Date | 21th August 1922 guessed | |
| Contd:- -2- Perhaps the ignition is set unnecessarily late. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} sends particulars for increased movement. CONTROLS. X.4239. The controls on 6-Goshawk-11 car were so arranged that the engine would not stop. Mr. Elliott examined it and found the vertical rods of the throttle too short and the levers generally were not in the place as arranged on our LeC. drawings, the angles being wrong - kindly send new rod. It was also noticed that there was excessive slack in the joints of this control. Fortunately it did not appear to do any real harm. (In one case the split pin was out of the pin.) It was not the ball joints but the plain pin joints. TOOLS. There were many tools on the car but they were very dirty. In cleaning a car for despatch it should be the rule to clean out the tool boxes and the tools. There was a large quantity of waste mixed up with the tools, probably to prevent jingling, but the waste was of such low quality that it increased the dirty appearance of the tool boxes. I am asking the O.O. to see that we do not have such a poor quality of waste, which is not economical, and I recommend you to use rag wipers generally, rather than waste. After washing out the tool boxes and the tools with paraffin, soft soap, and water, they were put back without any waste, and no jingling was experienced. The tool bag would disgrace, a dustheap and would not hold the tools as they shot out on 2 occasions when I tried to put it in the box. The tool bag and the whole arrangement of tool box on 4-Goshawk-11 was much more satisfactory and does not encumber the running board. REAR PETROL TANK. X.4266. The new pipe came to hand but in attempting to fit it it was found very difficult to get in owing to the body requiring it to be tilted at an angle. It suggests that the patch on the top of the tank be moved further to the rear and the angle inclined more so that it can be removed with the largest body likely to be fitted. It also suggests that the hole through which the cover over the filter has to pass had more clearance so as to permit of the angle being greater. Regarding the petrol gauge, I agree that the ring screwing down the glass should be lighter. contd:- | ||