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).
The fitting of framed instruments to show cars and querying details on specific components like speedometers, clocks, and dials.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 15\7\ Scan030 | |
Date | 13th August 1927 | |
To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} X7530 DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}3/M13.8.27. RE. FRAMED INSTRUMENTS. X.8530 X.4308 X.7530 X.4662b. We are urging Sales to get this fitted to the show cars instead of the grouped arrgt. which they have proposed. They ask for a set to fit up on a car, and we suggest that you send to us the set you have made up for EAC.7. first car, when we will send it on to them after we have viewed it. It is more urgent to get a move on to have the scheme available for the customer than to have it on EAC.7. Two sets were instructed in=DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}2/M4.10.26., one for EAC.7. and one for Sales. We leave it to you to fit the best dials you have at the moment, and also the instruments that are available. We would like you to let us know - (1) Why F.75559 does not shew the A.T. speedometer with a trip as suggested on N.sch.2226, and whether the A.T. people have made such an instrument. (2) What date Messrs. North & Sons will supply a suitable clock. (3) Why we have not got old English type dials like the sample you submitted to us in your BY7/H10.9.26., and which we chose in DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}1/M4.10.26. If we have been told that this was subsequently found impossible, we believe R.{Sir Henry Royce} would have agreed to the use of white dials such as are now agreed to for the petrol gauge. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||