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).
Agreeing to standardise serrated drives for the magneto, replacing the fabric type.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\E\September1920\ Scan26 | |
| Date | 4th October 1920 | |
| To HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} Copy to CJ. " " PN.{Mr Northey} " " EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} " " R.R. of America Inc. (For the attention of OY.) ORIGINAL RECEIVED 4 OCT 1920 X.3699 X.3530 RE MAGNETO DRIVES. R3/G29/9/20. (4 With reference to magneto drives, I quite agree with your suggestion that we should standardise the serrated drives for the magneto, and that this should be done as quickly as possible because it has less slack, it is better forwear, and is easier to produce, and it is assumed that it will avoid the necessity of the brake on the magneto. I quite agree that it is a safer policy to adopt this type rather than the fabric type, principally on account of the fabric type being likely to be damaged by heat. It will probably cost us less money because the whole is produced within our own Works. It has, as you say, the advantage too, that the end location of the magneto is [strikethrough] less exacting. R.{Sir Henry Royce} [Signature] S H S32V (100L) (2H 700 11-8-20) C 3800 | ||