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).
Difficulty in obtaining petrol gauges and warning lights due to a supply issue with the makers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168a\4\ img122 | |
| Date | 11th July 1939 | |
| 6144 To HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/WSC.{W. S. Cassel} c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC{R. Childs}/CAP. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs}17/JH.11.7.39. In connection with the electrical units ordered for cars 4.B.50. and Ripple 1.R.1. we have difficulty in obtaining petrol gauges to DB.{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}2138 which were ordered about 7.6.39. and Smith Warning Lights DB.{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}2391 and DB.{Donald Bastow - Suspensions}2392 which were ordered about 2.6.39. We understand from the Order Office that these types of units are now coming in from the makers, but that they cannot be made available to us, as Production are also pressing for them, and the whole of the deliveries are being handed over to their stock. We should be glad to know if there is anything we can do in the matter. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} | ||