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).
Component issues and requests for vehicles supplied to the American market.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 38\2\ Scan122 | |
| Date | 11th November 1920 | |
| X.3456. -4- Extract EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}6/F11.11.20. Contd. X.3614 - Re American Visit. (8) BONNET FITTING. X.3421. Complaints we have made as regards the bedding of the bonnets on new chassis are certainly justified by their behaviour in the States, and after cars have been in service for a short time, the bonnets which are bedding at the corners only, wear badly, also commence to rattle. I again bring forward the question of more important attention being given to the fit of the bonnets, and they should be so fixed that the whole of the top beading of the radiator and the dashboard takes the load, and at the time contact is made to the beading at each side. (9) RADIATORS. X.3456. X.3678. These still continue to give trouble in so far as the soldering of the side plates cracks and the plates themselves become loose after the car has been in service for a short time. I do not feel that there is sufficient expansion allowed in the bottom screws of these plates. Could tests be made and a standard given for inspection.? (10) BONNET LOCKS. America request that Yale locks should be fixed on all bonnets for America, as standard. (11) BATTERY BOXES. X.1304. The battery boxes we supply are never used, as they are not suitable for the work they have to do, I suggest that we should avoid sending any further boxes with the chassis, as these do not appear to be used even by the English coachbuilders, or a battery box should be supplied which has a proper hinged lid{A. J. Lidsey} and clasp, or lock. (12) VACUUM FEED TO CARBURETTER. X.3454. X.3503. This is a point on which the American Co. are very keen, justifying it by the fact that this system has proved good on all other makes of American cars, and is now less or more universally used by all makers. It also saves time in so far as it avoids hand pumping. | ||