Agenda for a conference at Derby covering AERO and CHASSIS topics.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 30\2\ Scan017 | |
| Date | 16th March 1932 | |
| Copy. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 12/Ell.3.32. Agenda for conference at Derby 16.3.32. AERO 1. Run through any items of Minutes of February 17th that are not finished. 2. Compression Ignition, recent memos of R. {Sir Henry Royce} Eg. referred to in Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 10/E9.3.32. 3. E.L.S. Variable Pitch Airscrews. CHASSIS 4. Further 20/25 material to follow "U" Series. brake drums 5. General position re J.III Peregrine(Experimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine) and Bensport(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley). Radiator 6. Item 7 of last agenda re 18-0-4. 7. Instruction Books & Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 22/E24.2.32, Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Lid {A. J. Lidsey} 3/NA {Mr Nadin} 29.2.32, and BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /Cgh {W Clough} 1/G9.3.32. 8. Controllable shock dampers - Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 6/MJ4.3.32 and Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 3/E8.3.32. 9. Gearboxes & Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 3/MJ27.2.32 and Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 18/E2.3.32. 10. Chassis wiring & Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst2/AD7.3.32. 11. Woodhead springs, see Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 23/E20.1.32 & Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 9/T26.1.32. 12. Testing in France, see Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 7/MJ21.1.32. 13. Continental model - proposed modifications to cylinder head and camshaft and how such modifications would affect material. Also crankshafts with larger journals and balance weights and crankcases. (Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} can explain) Hopps | ||
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).