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).
Cost-benefit of a new production method for brake drums.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 120\1\ scan0127 | |
| Date | 8th September 1933 | |
| GRY{Shadwell Grylls} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} RHO X4612 BY/EM5/J.8.9.33. Brake Drums. We are in receipt of memo reference ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/HW10/GB7.9.33.., with regard to the samples of brake drums which have been sent to us by Messrs. Lake & Elliott Limited, which have been produced by a different method designed to enable the drums to be produced cheaper than at present. The point we would like to make is that according to Messrs. Lake & Elliott's figures, we shall only be saving 3/6d. per cwt. by the adoption of the new method and we are wondering whether it is worth while altering and interferring with the standardised product for the small saving mentioned. BY [signature] for BY | ||