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).
Poor design of bonnet locks and the high cost and unsatisfactory nature of vertical louvres.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 15\1\ Scan342 | |
| Date | 31th August 1930 | |
| R1/M31.8.30 contd. -3- and only requires our own design of bonnet lock to make it thoroughly satisfactory, the present bonnet lock being putridly bad, and defeating the very object of our new fasteners. Can this move, which is now about 2 years old, be adopted when locks are required, as I understand they are only fitted at special request? I am asking By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} in this memo to do his utmost to get us some horizontal louvres promptly. The present vertical ones are much too costly and very unsatisfactory, in fact a disgrace to RR. ability (soft metal etc.) R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||