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).
Standardization, staffing, and accommodation requirements for experimental car test houses.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\1\ scan0121 | |
| Date | 13th December 1935 | |
| To Hy.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}16/KW.13.12.35. Experimental Car Test Houses. Confirming our conversation, we hand you herewith a sketch of the accommodation we should like to standardise for experimental car test houses. The complement of each test house is usually a head tester, an ordinary tester, and two assistants. We encourage the head tester to keep in his test house complete records of the engines which have gone through his hands, together with specifications and strip reports. He is also responsible for making sketches, and modifications to such parts as induction pipes, pistons, valves, carburetters, etc. It is the unanimous request of the head testers that they shall be able to shut off the noise and fumes which arise during endurance running, whilst they are making sketches and writing out reports. We consider that this is a reasonable request and we have therefore shown a door in the sketch attached. We have already mentioned the difficulty of the new heating elements drawing air from the top of the test house and blowing it on to the personnel, and should be glad if you could scheme something to avoid this. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||