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).
Letter to Motor Body Panels Ltd. regarding missing, misplaced, and rusting tools for B.V. bodies and requesting information for future production.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 155\4\ scan0158 | |
| Date | 28th February 1941 | |
| Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/EAG.5/RH.{R. Hollingworth} 28th February, 1941. Messrs. Motor Body Panels Ltd., COVENTRY. Dear Sirs, This confirms our visit to your works on February 22nd. when the question of the storage of tools for B.V. bodies was discussed with your Mr. Smith. It is understood that some of the patterns and templates for this body have been scrapped in error by your people. That you had adapted some existing blanking, piercing, bending and forming tools to suit this job and that during the various changes, in personnel and shop layout of your works, these tools have been mislaid and that you have no accurate record of them. While you have located some of the smaller tools which you made specially for B.V. there are some that have not yet been found. The larger tools are not under cover and they are mixed with numerous others. You explained that the faces of these were greased before being placed there; it was pointed out that they are rusting badly at exposed parts and that in our opinion, this rusting is likely to extend and cause serious damage if precautions were not taken now to avoid it. To reduce as much as possible the long delay that appears to be inevitable if the tools are left as they are at present, we should like you to have all the tools checked over, greased and stored together in a place in which they will be reasonably safe. Supply us with the following information:- 1. A list of what equipment you should have. 2. What equipment is missing and will have to be replaced. 3. Where you propose to store the tools. 4. How soon you can have the work carried out. 5. Your estimated time before you can commence delivery of completed sets of body panels after receiving instructions from us, after the war. | ||