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).
Secret memorandum with a sketch discussing the design and production of a cast dashboard for the Japan III model.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\V\October1930-February1931\ Scan301 | |
| Date | 6th February 1931 | |
| TO HY.{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} FROM EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} COPY TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} SECRET. CAST DASHBOARD. JAPAN III. We are making a design for the cast dashboard for Japan III, and are endeavouring to make it to machine mould. It will of course be of the universal type as recently done for P.II. We would like to know whether it would facilitate and cheapen production to cast on the bonnet angle, as we are proposing this. If we do we are not sure of the best way to attach the ferodo. To make lace the ferodo as now would entail the milling of slots which would be expensive, we believe. We give below a suggestion for holding the ferodo on with staples similar to those used for attaching the fabric to the servo clutch plate. Will it be necessary to machine the ledge to receive the ferodo or will the casting be sufficiently accurate? We would welcome your views by return as we are at work on the design of the casting at the moment. [Handwritten Annotations] X5500 X5)70 [Drawing Annotations] A A SECTION -A-A EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} [Stamp] ORIGINAL | ||