Request to arrange the return of a faulty Smith electric petrol gauge for Bensport from the Experimental Department.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61\3\ scan0348 | |
| Date | 17th May 1933 | |
| 86138! Roy. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst. c. to G {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} /MT. c. to D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /BP. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.7/MA.17.5.33. SMITH ELECTRIC PETROL GAUGE FOR BENSPORT(Codename for 3 1/2-litre Bentley). Will you please arrange to return to the Makers as soon as possible an Electric Petrol Gauge which has given trouble on one of the above chassis in the Experimental Dept. We have written to Messrs. Smiths about this failure and our replacement order should quote letter ref. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.6/MA. of today's date. As this is the only petrol gauge of its type available we shall be glad if you will arrange with Messrs. Smiths for the return of this gauge to us as speedily as possible. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst. | ||
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).