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).
Poor design of a chassis tool box and the need to create standardized instructions for coachbuilders.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\1\ Scan028 | |
| Date | 10th September 1924 | |
| +4583 To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} c. to LHS.{Lord Herbert Scott} HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} C. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/M10.9.24. RE. TOOLS. X.1027. X.4083. Unfortunately a chassis with a very primitive design of tool box in the runningboard has fallen into Mr. Royce's hands, and created a bad impression concerning these fitments. In R's memo. R2/M9.9.24., he asks us to go into the matter of housing these tools and supplying detailed instructions for actual trays, tool-boxes, or wallets, to the coachbuilders. In order to do this we must have a complete set of tools and spares as sent out with a std. 40/50 chassis, and what we think would be a good scheme to clear this matter up would be for Sales to send us by some suitable means a complete set of tool boxes as fitted in the runningboards, of the best design we know. With this should be all the tools and spares that we supply. Would everybody kindly supply the necessary parts to EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} at WW? so that he may take up this work. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||