FAME OF ROLLS-ROYCE

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 15

FAME OF ROLLS-ROYCE

Why Wonderful British XHar Is Envy of World

AS near perfection. as human* skill and endeavpr can make it, and accepted as the synonym for the highest and best m the motor world the Rolls-Royce still occupies its pre-eminent position.

CONSIDERING that the famous L Rolls is m reality a very ordinary type of six-cylinder car with nothing unusual m its' lay-out one might reasonably wonder why it stands unchallenged. _ The answer is simple. It is because highly-gifted men; striving for years with all the ability and knowledge at their command, .have . never tolerated anything but the finest possible material and workmanship to pass into th ThSr motto has been always that if any part, no matter how trivial, can be Improved, it shall be done. The Rolls indeed exemplifies that genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains. Before the material is. taken into the workshops, it is tested meticulously for quality and uniformity, and every nivt as it is made is tested and re-; tested until alf possibility of mistake is eliminated. .: ■■„ . When the engine undergoes its first test it is fed continuously with purified oil, so that no oil enters the engl In its iC flnal bench test the engine must not . deviate by. more than two per cent, from the standard .of efficiency. If it does, it is not allowed to leave the factory. '... tVlo After undergoing drastic tests, the chassis and engine are brought together, and another period of trial ia gone through.

So that ' the possibility of human error is reduced to a minimum, only four special testers are employed,., and every single car has.to pass through the hands of these men. The care with which every part of the machine is tested can be gathered from the fact that the ..average period the chassis spends V.\in its final trials is actually five weeks. Here it receives the final touches that give it the hallmark of quality. , A little sidelight on the standard of silence demanded m the chassis, is shed by the fact that although the magneto fitted to. the engine'is the finest of its type, it is considered to possess a drawback, owing to the tiny but definite noise it makes when running, which can be heard above the faint sound of the engine. Both sets of brakes on the Rolls, operate through exquisitely designed differential gears, and every bolt used on the car is of a special type. So minutely has every part of the car to conform to the standard of efficiency m its functioning that so far from being a highly specialised car, the Rolls is m reality a highly standardised one.