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).
Letter to Rover Motor Company discussing chromium-plated tappets, standardising a Bentley bumper bar, and feedback on a Rover car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\3\ scan0049 | |
| Date | 28th May 1935 | |
| X1091 Exptl. Dept. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/KW. 28th May, 1935. Captain S.B. Wilks, The Rover Motor Company Ltd., Coventry. Dear Capt. Wilks, Thank you for your letter re chromium plated tappets. We are very anxious to get some more of the thick chromium plate running: do you want some more tappets ? If so, please let us know. I put your note re the manufacture of Aero engine parts before our Works Director, Mr. Wormald; he will be replying to you in due course. We are contemplating standardising the stabilising bumper bar on the Bentley. Up to date we have only put it on Bentley cars in exceptional cases, or when they are going abroad, etc. Can you by any chance tell me what you pay for these bumper bars, or failing this, what Morris's pay, because one of the objections to standardising them is that Wilmot-Breeden's have in my opinion been charging us rather a lot. Of course we have been ordering small quantities, but the production requirements will be 500 or 600 a year. I am very pleased with the Rover after the work you did on it. My only complaint at present is that above 60 m.p.h. on the speedometer the steering is still poor, in spite of the wheels being in balance. The valve gear noise is of course still irritating, but is clearly a fundamental trouble and not one that can be overcome by a small modification. Yours sincerely, | ||