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).
Standardisation of a hexagon USA tube and modifications to bonnet openings to improve safety and reduce weight.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 131\1\ scan0015 | |
Date | 5th June 1931 | |
To R.{Sir Henry Royce} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}10/E5.6.31 - 2 - the blueprint attached to the report referred to and there would appear to me to be no doubt (so far as my lay mind can see it) that we ought to standardise the small hexagon USA tube having the .265 centres and 18 dents. This would give us a very substantial reduction in weight and at the same time give considerably better results from the point of view of a margin of safety than would be effected by the adoption of the larger ones, .309. If we could adopt these and have the new specially designed WW movable openings in the sides of the bonnet one would feel that we were on fairly safe ground so far as this particular complaint is concerned. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||