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).
Further notes from a visit regarding design modifications for various vehicle components.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\I\September1922\ Scan24 | |
| Date | 20th September 1922 | |
| R R 235 A (100 T) 8.8.19 G 2460 TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} & EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to CJ. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} FURTHER NOTES RE. VISIT OF HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} & EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} TO WW. REPORTED IN R1/M1922 & R2/M5922. XL4219 X2565 (1) VENTILATING SCUTTLE DASH - 40/50 & GOSHAWK. Mr. Hives says that swivelling the lower half of the windscreen so that a current of air is deflected downwards in-to the scuttle is better than anything else he has tested. I think this should be recommended for cars in India. I should like to know if the screen can be made in this way, and yet be rainproof on the bottom edge when closed up. (2) FLOORBOARDS - GOSHAWK. The floorboards on the first production car were not correct to the Lec design, and I am surprised that the draught-sman on this job did not shew sufficient interest to see for himself that the car was not sent to me with floorboards so ob-viously wrong. (3) CHASSIS WIRING - GOSHAWK. YH075 I agree that the Simplex joints and tubing are un-suitable for chassis work, and I recommend for trial pieces of straight tube for carrying the wiring in the chassis' frame with no tee or elbow joints, but beaded or slightly bell-mouth-ed{J. L. Edwards} ends to the tubes. (4) BRAKE GEAR - GOSHAWK. The brake countershaft bearings should be made suffi-ciently slack to avoid as far as possible becoming tight as on C. Goshawk ll. at Wittering. (5) BATTERY BOX SUSPENSION - GOSHAWK. X4378 I think this will be satisfactory with the stronger front end bracket arranged that the bracket cannot be pinched by the bolt, i.e. with pin or spherical joint. (6) RATTLING TIMING GEARS - GENERAL. It has occurred to me that the timing gears could be arranged without slack by using an intermediate gear on an ad-justable centre between the crankshaft and camshaft gearwheels. Also all the units could be mounted in line on a separate cast-ing parallel with the crankcase and moved bodily sideways to adjust the driving pinion into the same intermediate gear. (7) BONNETS - GOSHAWK. The Goshawk bonnets must be made so that they can be more easily closed and opened. The leading edge of each | ||