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).
Proposal to reduce the standard tool kit for the 40/50 HP New Phantom chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 68\2\ scan0263 | |
| Date | 16th November 1926 | |
| COPY. ROLLS-ROYCE TOOL KIT 40/50 HP. NEW PHANTOMCodename for PHANTOM I. It is suggested that the very complete kit of tools and spares hitherto supplied with our chassis might be materially reduced without serious disadvantage and with the following important advantages. 1. Reduction in weight of the equipment carried on the car. 2. Reduction in cost of the equipment carried on the car. 3. Greater facility for stowage in an accessible manner owing to the lesser space required. 4. Reduction in the cost of stowage accommodation required. The following is suggested as a suitable list for supply which it is considered will meet 99.9% of the cases in which any work requires doing on the road. It will be readily possible to add many more useful tools to this list, but the aim has been to eliminate as much as possible and not to make it complete. The tools proposed are:- Standard set of wheel and tyre tools. Standard set of oiling appliances. Hammer. Chisel. X Copper drift. Crankcase oil drain plug spanner. Sparking plug spanner and Tommy Bar. (combined) Set of R.R. Spanners from 3/16" to ½" inclusive. (four spanners) Magneto spanner. Medium size shifting spanner. Small size shifting spanner. Pair of pliers. (& cutters) X Small hand vice. Screwdriver. X Small smooth flat file. Small smooth ¼" round file. Platinum point file. Set of R.R. feeler gauges. Schraeder tyre pressure gauge. We thus omit the cost, weight and space occupied by the following tools, which if desired by anyone for workshop (Cont'd). | ||