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).
Secret memorandum about the high production cost of a new combined apron and luggage grid, discussing potential design modifications and external quotations.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 1\5\ B001_X 111-114-page09 | |
| Date | 21th January 1933 | |
| XIII. TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} FROM EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} SECRET. EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}5/21.1.33. X.4027 X.4531. COPY TO SG.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} WOR.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} RE. R.R. PATENT LUGGAGE CARRIER. J.3. & PER.2. Derby have informed SG.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} that the new combined apron and luggage grid designed by us for J.3. and scaled down for Per.2. is costly to produce. We do not appear to have received a report to that effect and we feel that we should have done. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} requests that I come up and see you with a view to discussing modifications in the design to reduce this cost, and this I will do in the course of the next week or ten days. In the meantime we would be glad if Derby would send us their comments as to which are the costly features and what is the estimated cost at which it could be supplied to Sales for Per.2. in batches of 200. Would Derby (BY) please send us a set of details of the grid and apron so that we can also get a quotation from outside, as it might be more economical to obtain this feature in the same way as we do such parts as bumpers etc. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||