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Agreement with Messrs. Lucas to manufacture modified headlamps for a Bentley Chassis.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 61a\2\  scan0140
Date  22th July 1933
  
86116

To E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} from ROY. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer}
c. to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

ROY {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} 1/MG22.7.33

In conversation with Mr. Oliver Lucas on Thursday, the 20th instant, it was agreed Messrs. Lucas should proceed with manufacture of a pair of the special type Head Lamps of which they have already submitted one for the Bentley Chassis, embodying the modified fixing arrangements discussed with E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} and making provision for:

(a) The Lamps to be more dust proof than the original sample.

(b) An attachment whereby a guard of Chrome plated "Metalace" as supplied by Messrs. G.A.Harvey & Co (London) Ltd, Greenwich Metal Works, London S.E.7 for the Radiator Stone Guard, can be fitted to the the front of the glass.

Messrs. Lucas hope to deliver a sample pair of such Lamps about the middle of August.

ROY {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} ,
  
  
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).


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