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).
Proposal for foundry improvements including the relocation of the moulding process and consideration of new melting furnaces.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 76\2\ scan0017 | |
| Date | 30th October 1911 guessed | |
| (2) ordinary moulding. This seems as if it could very well take place on the removal of the tinsmith's shop, the tinsmith's shop being the very building for this purpose. One bay might be sufficient for the plate moulding and the other might be utilized as a pattern stores. Louvres would have to be put in the roof of the one used for plate moulding to increase the ventilation. Possibly it might be wiser to keep both these bays and allow ample room for the work. The advantages of a moulding machine are somewhat doubtful, but it might be tried when we get to this stage, also some quicker way of melting the metal, other-wise, I am afraid it will be necessary to put down more melting furnaces of the present type. But it might be worth while to consider at such a time the use of the oil melting furnaces, which for certain classes of casting might be quick and economical. This would be my treatment of the foundry for immediate progress, and Mr Wormald would be quite satisfied with such procedure. F.H.R. | ||