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).
Issue with the incorrect fitting of springs and an axle, recommending the dismissal of the responsible workmen.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\3\ Scan115 | |
| Date | 19th May 1922 guessed | |
| contd:- -2- before the axle was put under the car. In addition to this fault the boxes were too deep for the springs, and in spite of apparently much tightening and hammering, has never gripped the springs at all, the springs working about in the boxes, elongating the holes for the central pin and knocking the pin loose, hence the whole of the trouble. I think that if it can be ascertained who fitted these up, and who supervised the fitting of them such workmen should be discharged as there is no excuse for an experimental car being fitted so, and such a workman cannot possibly be a fitter, and ought not even to be an assembler, and is hardly fit to be a labourer in a mechanic's shop. R. {Sir Henry Royce} | ||