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).
Outlining new procedures for managing cars in the fitting shop to improve efficiency and establish an order of urgency.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 143\3\ scan0219 | |
| Date | 25th April 1940 | |
| To: Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/TD. from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c.c. HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH{R. Hollingworth} and all testers. Handwritten notes: Hlt. R W / F JH Quyers/fth 12 off - CARS IN THE FITTING SHOP. A certain amount of confusion and inefficiency has resulted through there being no order of urgency for cars going in the Fitting Shop. From now onwards, a list of the order in which cars will receive attention is being prepared and this list will be revised every week. If, owing to a break-down or other emergency it is necessary to put a car in the Shop out of it's turn it is essential that Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} should be notified of this before the car is dealt with. There is inevitably a tendency to send requisitions through for work to be done on a car after stripping has started. Obviously, it is impossible to specify all the work that shall be done on a car before an examination has taken place, but there is need for a better system than existing at present. The following procedure will therefore be tried out from now onwards. Before a car goes in the Shop all instructions relating to the work to be done on it should be collected together and a boy should be sent round with these instructions and get the following testers to initial them to indicate that : (a) The tester knows that the car is going into the Shop. (b) That he approves of the instructions of the work to be done and has nothing more to add. P.T.O. | ||