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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).
Proposal outlining the organization and operational system for the weight analysis section.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 132\2\  scan0082
Date  15th January 1940
  
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(b) The person responsible for the weight section should be acquainted with the projects for future engines, and work schedules in the shop.

(c) The weight section should have the full co-operation of the experimental shop.

(d) There should be sufficient increase in the personnel to deal expeditiously with the increase in work.

This should include a typist and a photographer on whom the weight section would have the first claim, but who could also do work for other departments when they had time.

Suggested System on which the Weight Section should Operate.

Sufficient space should be available in which to keep a file for every L.O.P. section on each engine. As L.O.P's become available the typist should make a copy of them, with piece numbers. These should be filed and the weights be filled in as they become available, so that the weight filing section would eventually develop into a reference library of weights, and also from time to time issue weight sheets to the various departments.

It would seem that the most satisfactory system of work would be for one person to be responsible for obtaining and filing the weights of new parts on experimental engines, and two more whose whole time job is the full weight analysis with photographs.

To obtain the best results from the proposed system it would be essential that the work of obtaining, correlating and issuing weights should be centralised, the need arises therefore for an office where the work of the section could be efficiently carried on, and which could be kept locked when complete engines were stripped for weighing and inspection by the design staff.

Owing to the imminence of the departure of the chassis section, it is important that the foregoing points should receive attention, and some action betaken, if the aero weight analysis is to continue.

Lr{Mr Ellor}/Cr.{Mr Cra???ster / Mr Chichester}
  
  


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