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).
Application of a new exhaust design to Chassis No. GXO-69 for Mr. Hutton.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 47\3\ Scan139 | |
| Date | 29th July 1931 | |
| X4117 PN.{Mr Northey}5/WT29.7.31 S/W. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}..from PN.{Mr Northey} Copy to Ss{S. Smith} (E55794) Chassis No. GXO-69. Hutton. Referring to your Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/MJ.22.7.31 you will see from the attached copy of D/BP/Bm7/DH.{D. Henderson - Showroom}28.7.31 that apparently you were under some misapprehension in your memo above referred to, as to the new design of Exhaust parts being easily or readily applicable to this owner's car. It would appear that certain other parts would be necessary before the exhaust modification could be fitted. The consideration of this could be made after the Works' holidays, and Mr. Hutton's return from France, where he has gone for about one month, but the point really is whether the modifications which were recently fitted in Scotland by our Derby mechanic Dunn can be looked upon as generally effective and satisfactory from the point of view of contingent burning, as the scheme which you refer to in your memo quoted, which you suggest might now be fitted, because unless the latest design would be materially better from the point of view of burning, and not only better from the point of view of efficiency with the resultant pep, we need hardly consider going to the expense of doing anything further in this connection. PN.{Mr Northey} Cgh{W Clough} E55794 E5578 | ||