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).
On replacing a serrated roller with a sliding block on the Phantom model, per scheme 2598.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 16\7\ Scan064 | |
| Date | 16th May 1928 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X7410 BY4/G.16.5.28. PHANTOM. REPLACING SERRATED ROLLER BY A SERRATED SLIDING BLOCK AS SHOWN ON SCHEME 2598. It is most important that I should point out that we cannot make sudden changes of springs without involving ourselves in a considerable amount of scrap. We always have to carry a stock of springs over a fairly wide range, and whilst we are trying to reduce the necessary stock to a minimum there is always a period of overlapping, as the type of spring being replaced cannot stop with a series. This means that the standardisation of a point of this kind must be somewhat elastic as far as the point in which the change is brought in is concerned. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} By | ||