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 The S.U. Company Ltd. detailing issues with pumps supplied for the Bentley chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27a\2\ Scan282 | |
| Date | 4th December 1933 | |
| Copy to E: By: Sft{Mr Swift}: x2677 Experimental Dept. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Bwg{J. C. Bowring}12/KT. December 4th 1933. The S.U. Company Ltd, East Works, Bordesley Green Road, Adderley Park, Birmingham. For the attention of Mr.T.C.Skinner. Dear Sirs, With reference to the pumps which you are supplying for the Bentley chassis. There are one or two items with which we are not quite satisfied, being as follows:- (1) The stove enamelling is not quite to our standard, the enamel being in large "wrinkles" in some of the castings. (2) A number of contact points are still coming through out of alignment, in some cases only half the point making contact and invariably only one point of the double contact makes contact at all. (3) The 2.BA studs in the casting vary in length considerably, and we think you will agree that it will make a much neater job if these are all the same length, that is to say, just protruding from the reach nuts. (4) On some of the pumps the valve caps and delivery unions are very much out of centre to the casting. This is evidently due to the first drilling operation being out of truth. (5) The rockers are excessively slack on the pivoting pins, in some cases the pins being very slack in the bakelite moulding, also the small rollers are too slack. All these "slacknesses" combined create quite | ||