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).
Clarifying the source of a vehicle rattle complaint, distinguishing between transmission and wheel issues.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\1\ scan0287 | |
| Date | 9th March 1938 | |
| W/K.{Mr Kilner} To Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} c. Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}6/AP.9.3.38 P.3. COMPLAINTS Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}3/N.4.3.38 With regard to No.3. under Rattles in Transmission, are you sure that all the trouble is due to dry wheel drivers and not to creaking wheels. As the wheels have to be removed to get at the wheel drivers, evidence is immediately destroyed. Could you, therefore, on the next car make sure that the wheels are not the trouble before attacking the drivers. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||