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).
Scheduling concerns for testing car 27-EX, including potential delays with the twin carburetter and a centrally vented tank.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\5\ Scan108 | |
Date | 13th November 1930 | |
x8992 To Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to Sgx not recd. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/MJ.13.11.30. 27-EX. For R.{Sir Henry Royce} With reference to Da{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}2/M.10.11.30. We are rather concerned at the small amount of time you propose to allow us for testing the finished car. If R.{Sir Henry Royce} is going to leave on the 7th. the car will have to leave Derby on the 4th., and if Park Wards are going to take a week to mount the body it will leave us only two days to put anything right that may be wrong. We think this is quite unsufficient and would prefer to let the coachbuilders have the chassis two days earlier if we could be given a little more time to work on the finished car. Alternatively, cannot the coachbuilders complete their job of mounting the body in less than a week?. With reference to the twin carburetter, we should like to make it quite clear that it will be at least three weeks before we have one running on an engine. Actually the instructions for this carburetter from the D.O. were only completed this week which should have been clear from Ey's monthly statement of the work going through the D.O. Needless to say, we shall do all we can to get it through as soon as possible but there is not the least chance of it being on 27-EX. With regard to the centrally vented tank. If you can let us have this scheme by the 18th., we think we might possibly get it made and painted in time to get it on the car but it would hardly be advisable to fit such a unit without previous experimental tests so that, on the whole, we fear that it will have to be omitted. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||