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).
List of standardisation sheets detailing updates to various vehicle components.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154a\3\ scan0252 | |
| Date | 2nd January 1937 | |
| -2- BY/Mtnl/N.2.1.37 Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} The following standardisation sheets are in course of circulation :- Magnesium gearbox. Road wheels with improved locking nuts. Magnesium intake bend and timing cover. Improved cross and side steering tubes. Thick leaf rear springs. Copper pipe from shock damper governor unit to frame. Bumper bar weights in 92% lead, 8% antimony instead of pure lead, in order to increase hardness. Servo improvements - as per list attached to standardisation sheet. Distance piece - rear hub. Studs for holding bob weights of bumper bar on to spring levers. New type Butler stop and tail lamp. Acme thread on starter motor drive. Servo with linings held by splines and torsional connection of driving plates by spring rings - linings in R.A.D.13 material. Simplified pedal return spring anchorage, and oil seals on countershaft. Dynamo cut-out with double contacts to RR.Sch.845 and springs to D.54809. Extra hole in each crank journal opposite to existing - grooves enlarged in intermediate bearings. Connecting rod big ends in RR. 56 alloy. Disc type damper on servo suspension bracket. External Tecalamit type oil filter. | ||