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).
Cost comparison for parts and clarifying that labour charges for drop-forged items do not include overheads.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\3\ scan0188 | |
| Date | 18th August 1937 | |
| 109/ BY.4/G.18.8.37. Rover File Referring to the suggestion put forward at one of our friend's recent visits to the Works, that we should let them have certain parts of ours with nett. prices, so that they in turn could compare with their own costs, I carried out the suggestion and we have received a letter with a comparison of our costs with theirs, the pieces under the heading "Alternative" being Rolls-Royce, which should give us the information required. In regard to the point raised, as to whether overheads were included in the two pieces which were stamped in our own Drop Forge, the reply to that is, No, the labour charges being actual. By BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||