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).
Strategy for testing and delivering the 'India' chassis with F.W.B. (Front Wheel Brakes).
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 57\1\ Scan105 | |
| Date | 5th March 1925 | |
| -2- Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}1/M5/3/25. fitted with F.W.B. running on the road about the middle of April; In this connection it should be remembered that we shall not deliver all the current type chassis to Sales until about the 18th. or a little later, in April. Obviously if we are going to have, and I believe we can, an 'India' chassis fitted with F.W.B. by the middle of April, we shall know a good deal by that time about the difficulties of F.W.B. and 'India' chassis. Therefore I suggest it might be wise not to go on with the 10,000 miles test with 'India' chassis, but wait until the middle of April and run 10,000 miles with F.W.B. then. I think it possible that Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} might be able to give his O.K. by some time in June. In any case I think it is well worth while making a desperate effort, owing to our position, to do so. You will see from the foregoing that I am in favour of attempting a complete chassis fitted with F.W.B. rather than two upsets, providing that it can be made to fit in with Sales' difficulties. In any case the policy I suggest above would not interfere with altering our views and issuing the 'India' chassis without F.W.B. providing we find difficulties with F.W.B., because from your memo we shall not announce any new chassis until you have got further with sales and deliveries of current type, which might be some time in May or even June, and we should know a lot about F.W.B. by that time, and the policy could be more definitely decided then. | ||