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Special switch from the Lucas Company, intended as a potential substitute for a German-made Bosch switch for operating the 3rd Lamp.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 61b\3\  scan0285
Date  10th October 1930
  
To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from ROY. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} (Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} is struck through)
c. to BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} (BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} is struck through)
c. to EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer}

Handwritten at top: 9450 *4500 X6072

ROY {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} 3/MG3.10.30

The Lucas Company have completed a special Switch for operating the 3rd Lamp, which they have put through extended Laboratory tests breaking heavy current, and now place before us with every confidence.

If your tests with same prove satisfactory, I suggest we endeavour to substitute this for the German made Bosch Switch we have had under consideration. Kindly advise in due course.

I understand Lucas have already submitted a similar sample, or details thereof, to Conduit Street.

ROY. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer}
[Signature]

Switch herewith to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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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