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).
Instructions for building chassis, engine development, and arranging cars for high-speed and traffic testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 65a\1\ scan0364 | |
| Date | 1st May 1928 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X7770 To WOP. From BJ. Copy to C. Copy to Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Chassis. RJS/EE1.5.28 With reference to WorG/T19.5.28, at our conference to-day with C., Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}, CWB., yourself and myself, it was agreed that you should put in hand 10 or 12 chassis with the engine as under present instructions, with turbulent head, to be available for Olympia and demonstration cars if necessary, and you will keep down the scrap as far as possible. You will also go straight ahead with the development of the engine as instructed by R's wire, with a view to its being put in production as quickly as possible. You will also arrange for two cars to be available at the earliest possible moment with the engine as instructed in R's wire, one to be driven about France at high speeds as all the parts instructed in R's wire have not yet been tested together although they have been tested separately, and another similar car to be used by "Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}" for testing in London traffic, starting up from cold etc. If possible the car going to France might be the same as the car which is going to France in any case in a few weeks' time for 10,000 miles test, but whatever happens, the testing of the engine according to R's wire must not be delayed by other matters as the whole of our output depends on the result of this test and its being made as quickly as possible. BJ. | ||