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12-02-2018, 11:35 PM | #1 |
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How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Anyone read this? There is a bit about Fords in it, and how if a part that was not exactly right it could stop the assembly line. But at Rolls Royce they could just file a bit off.
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12-03-2018, 05:05 AM | #2 |
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I admittedly did not read the book but we need to remember that they are not comparing Apples to Oranges when comparing the assembling of a R/R vs. a Model-A in the one of them was designed to be hand crafted and one was mass produced. In restoration work, most true restoration involves hand crafting which requires much more labor.
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12-03-2018, 07:12 AM | #3 |
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I haven't read it either. Just flipped thru it at the book shop.
However, as a young joey, I was told, by a professor of engineering that what you pay for in a Rolls Royce is the close tolerances. |
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Well to a certain extent, that is true however you can get close tolerances on a Lexus too. It is more about not selling enough widgets to justify mass manufacturing which then means they must be hand-built. The biggest issue with producing anything is that labor costs are too expensive these days. |
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12-03-2018, 10:20 AM | #5 |
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Re: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
The model A was manufactured to tight tolerances,a Rolls Royce was fitted to tight tolerances
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12-03-2018, 12:56 PM | #7 |
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Re: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
And yet, when Rolls decided that they needed an automatic transmission, what did they do? They bought Hydramatics from GM! Their engineers decided that was better than what they could build!
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Toyota's CEO makes about 1/7th of the lady running GM. In America if you are a screw up in Business they award you with multi-million dollar bonuses as you exit the door. In Japan, they take failure at heart and suicide is not uncommon for failing |
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12-03-2018, 06:17 PM | #9 |
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On the matter of Rolls buying the hydromatic what they did was buy the rights to manufacture the trans for there use only. The first thing they did was to look at the drawings and decided that the tolerances were to sloppy. They then redrew the drawing to tighter tolerances. Then when they built the first ones and were testing them they found that they did not work. They then built the production trans. to the GM print.
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