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).
Letter from Automotive Products Company Ltd. regarding faulty double extension jacks and a proposed modification for their protection.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 140\2\ scan0018 | |
| Date | 14th June 1937 | |
| 1166 AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD [Left Box] Exclusive European Distributors & Spares Depots for:- HERCULES ENGINES TIMKEN AXLES "LOCKHEED" HYDRAULIC BRAKES FULLER TRANSMISSIONS BORG & BECK CLUTCHES LAVINE STEERING GEARS "PUROLATOR" THE OIL FILTER THOMPSON ECCENTRIC TIE RODS G & K "AUTODUCT" LINK-V-BELTING [SMMT Logo] [Main Section] DIRECTORS: E B BOUGHTON W EMMOTT D T BROCK Tachbrook Road Leamington Spa TELEPHONE: LEAMINGTON SPA 1400 TELEGRAMS: AUTODUCTS PHONE LEAMINGTON SPA REG OFFICE: BROCK HOUSE LANGHAM ST.{Capt. P. R. Strong} LONDON W.1 SCANDINAVIA: SVEAVAGEN 77, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Our Ref:- CC/IM - A.104. 14th June, 1937. Messrs. Rolls Royce Limited, D E R B Y. Dear Sirs, For the attention of Mr. Grylls. RE: DOUBLE EXTENSION JACKS. ------------------------- With reference to the 2 jacks which were returned to us on Friday last, we have now dismantled these and found that all the cups, etc., are in perfect order, and that leakage was due to the tube slackening off in a gasket. Is there any possibility of these jacks having been dismantled since they left our work? - in which case we would suspect that they have been re-assembled and not tightened up with the special impli-ments which we have here. In regard to the effect of the stones thrown up by the road, on the lower portion of these jacks, may we suggest that a small steel shield, standing away and forward of the jacks, consisting of two pieces of plate sandwiching a piece of asbestos between them, would be effective; alternatively, a fairly stiff rubber "cuff" would no doubt help matters. Yours faithfully, AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD., C. CLENCH, Development Department. [Left Margin Text] Quotations and Contracts are subject to revision of Duty, Transportation Costs, and to acceptance by the Factory; also to unforeseen delays arising from strikes, lockouts, transportation, war, &c., and force majeure. | ||