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).
Failure of an aluminized exhaust expansion box and the standardization of new Lucas headlamps for French regulations.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 131\4\ scan0082 | |
| Date | 9th March 1937 | |
| 1113 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}2/R.9.3.37. Exhaust Systems. With regard to the memos received this morning, I have looked into the memo you quote and the actual facts of the case are as follows:- The aluminized expansion box sent out by Whyman was the one and only sent out with a view to standardisation. After a few hundred miles your report of the 22nd October says that it failed and was re-welded, but your report does not say that it would be put under the bench and never again run. All the other failures you quote, and all the other running on 22.G.V. was done on the standard exhaust system without our knowledge. Hamilton confirmed all this when he returned to England. Headlamps. I am afraid we can never have received the first of the three memos on headlamps, otherwise we would certainly have sent you the pair you asked for. The position we are in is that Sales want to standardise as soon as possible the new Lucas lamp because it will be used only on R.R. cars, and they like the look of it. It seems unreasonable that we are not allowed to standardise it because the lighting does not conform to French law. The report we have on similar lamps in England is that they are excellent. We shall send out to France, as soon as possible, a complete pair of lamps with correct lighting for French conditions. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||