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).
Issues with bad platinum contact points and considerations for standardization.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\2\ scan0022 | |
| Date | 11th January 1926 | |
| - 2 - BY19/H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} 11.1.26. ----------------- Personally, I should be inclined to leave it, as so far as I am aware we are not having a great deal of complaint at the moment in this particular direction, not sufficient, in my opinion, to justify the expenditure in question. Where a car comes in showing bad platinum points, one would be inclined to think, from our previous experience, that the explanation of this, and the remedy, would be in the first place bad contacts, in the second place making good contacts, as Mr.Hancock in running in France, succeeded in making his platinums quite good from being bad, merely by keeping his contacts clean and good. One other point, - in considering where, whenever standardization is brought in, I should like to have some guidance as to the Experimental Dept's idea of the importance of the matter, as we shall have possibly a full Series of material at least, to scrap, of the old type. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} By [handwritten] [Watermark text: DICKINSON & CO / 1904 / MADE AT CROXLEY] | ||