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).
Delays in the Bentley jacking system and considering alternative systems from other car manufacturers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 139\1\ scan0167 | |
| Date | 15th June 1936 | |
| To E.B. from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}BY. Car.Bty. re Bentley Jacking System. Referring to Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}8/E17.1.36 it is now just 5 months since I first wrote asking for the Bentley scheme of jacking to be improved and, so far as I am aware, we have no information as to this starting on production. If I am wrong, please let me know when it will start. If I am right, please let me know what the actual position is and why it takes so long to bring along some-thing which to me seems a simple matter. We were out the other day on an SS{S. Smith} Jaguar and I was wondering whether you had seen the Stephenson system of jacks applied to that car. If not, I think you ought to do so as it seemed to me an extremely simple and effective scheme - in fact preferable really to the Rover. I am not, however, suggesting that at this date we should change over to it because I imagine that to do so would mean still further delay but it is a scheme with which I think you ought to be au fait because it seemed to us to be so simple, light, cheap and easy to operate. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} PS. Since dictating the above, I have seen a reference in the last paragraph of your E11/HP.20.1.36 to the Stephenson jacking system as used on the Vauxhall but I am not sure whether this is the same outfit as on the Jaguar. [Handwritten note at top left] H3 [Handwritten note at top center] X1166 [Handwritten note at bottom] GRY.{Shadwell Grylls} Should like Chronological history of the R.R. jack tool progress. We had some Stevenson jacking pieces made, where have these got to? | ||