Letter from Elliott Brothers regarding the testing of a returned speedometer which was reading high.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 8\2\ 02-page19 | |
| Date | 22th October 1919 | |
| CONTRACTORS TO THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. ELLIOTT BROTHERS (LONDON) LTD. Established 1800. ELECTRICAL & MECHANICAL ENGINEERS. FACTORY: CENTURY WORKS, LEWISHAM, LONDON, S.E.13. MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH ELECTRICAL & ALLIED MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION. THE ENGINEERS EMPLOYERS FEDERATION. THE SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS & TRADERS LTD. TELEPHONE: 4415 & 4416 VICTORIA. GRAMS: ELLIOTIZE, VIC. LONDON. OUR REFERENCE WJS/C. 8, CENTRAL BUILDINGS, WESTMINSTER, LONDON, S.W.1. UNDER GOVERNMENT CONTROL. 22nd October 1919. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Limited., Nightengale Road, Derby. [STAMP: RECEIVED 24 OCT 1919] Dear Sirs, With reference to the speedometer returned with your letter of the 24th ult., we have carefully tested the instrument, and find it is quite in order, and the mileage working in the correct direction if driven off the cardan shaft with the straight belt. With regard to the instrument reading high, we think this is probably due to the adjustment of the fittings, but if you will kindly let us know to what extent it is out, we would then let you know exactly what diameter to make the pulley. Yours faithfully, for ELLIOTT BROTHERS (LONDON) LIMITED., A W A Rylands Director. [Handwritten note:] Hancock This the black finished speedometer please check & see O.H.S. | ||
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).