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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).
Extract memo discussing the brightness of side lights and suggesting a reduction in current for parking.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 71\2\  scan0027
Date  11th October 1927
  
X8800

Extract from RL/M11.10.27.
(X.4808)

"Two or three things occur to me :-

(2) Secondly our side lights are uncomfortably bright. My 7-EX has tissue paper paper inside. Chrysler's have tiny lamps so that the side light current which is on for parking could be reduced by 50% to 75% = 1/2 to 1/4 of what it is now: this would make the difference."
  
  


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