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).
Design changes for the Phantom luggage grid and spare wheel carrier.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 67\2\ scan0107 | |
| Date | 11th August 1927 | |
| To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} V8400 DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}2/M11.8.27. PHANTOM LUGGAGE GRID. X.8400 X.8600 We thank you for your BY12/G3.8.27., and from the 1st. para. we conclude that the luggage grid with the latest type forged side members will now be used instead of the tubular type, and there is no need to attempt to improve the latter. The 2nd. para. appears to refer to another job, namely, the combined luggage grid and spare wheel carrier. We understand from the Expl: Dept: that this is standing up in the arrangement shewn on N.sch.2402., with a tube of the thickness shewn on N.sch.2419. If we adopt as std. the arrgt. shewn on N.sch.2402 it appears to be necessary to give the luggage grid away with the spare wheel carrier, and up to the present we understand the Administration are opposed to this. R.{Sir Henry Royce} we know is in favour of this proceeding, but so far we believe London have not consented to it. We should be very much obliged if the Expl: Dept: would send us the broken pieces of the arrangement on N.sch.2419 so that we can see where the clips want strengthening. We would deal with the question of chattering between the two tubes when the above question of policy has been decided. DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||