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).
Instruction to immediately cease using and scrap the existing stock of thick leaf springs.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\3\ Scan074 | |
| Date | 30th May 1922 | |
| Mr. Booth. c. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} [STAMP: MAY 31 1922 REC'D] x2628 BY5/H. 30. 5. 22. ------------------- RE SPRINGS. ----------- Kindly note that BJ. in his memo BJ10/H.30.5.22. copy of which we attach, is in agreement that we shall not continue to fit the thick leaf springs in future to use up the remainder of the stock. In order that we may at once abandon the use of thick leaf type springs without further delay, it has been definitely decided to scrap the existing stock of thick leaf springs. Will you kindly see that in issuing springing instructions in the future that we immediately put this into force and revise any instructions we have made on chassis which are not actually built. BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||