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).
Insufficient dynamo output on 20/25 HP cars in the U.S.A. and a proposed modification.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 68\4\ scan0308 | |
| Date | 16th January 1931 | |
| X5663 To Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} S. c. to By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} EFC. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/MJ.16.1.31. X5661/3 20/25 HP. DYNAMO OUTPUT. One of the jobs I promised to give attention to when I returned was the troubles they were having in U.S.A. with insufficient output from the generators on the 20/25 HP. cars. In U.S.A. they have six cars, GLR-57,27,60,61. 29,31. It is obvious that we have got to do something for them. Mr. Brock has shown us the output of a 20/25 HP. generator after he has modified the pole pieces and we think that very probably this modification would satisfy them in U.S.A. We know that we have satisfied a very large number of our customers with Phantoms by a similar modification I believe this alteration could be carried out by R.R.A.I. on existing machines and would save us the expense of sending any parts out. We recommend that EFC. gets out an instruction which will be sent to Springfield, telling them how to deal with these machines. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||