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).
Urgent internal memo requesting the order of a K-S petrol gauge from Claudel Hobson.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 44\3\ Scan101 | |
| Date | 5th December 1928 | |
| +9038 To ROY{Sir Henry Royce}/MS. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/LG5.12.28. INDIA 1V - K-S PETROL GAUGE. X5460 Will you please order from Messrs. Claudel Hobson one 20 HP. K-S unit complete exactly similar to that recently supplied to KS.175. except that the instrument board mask should have black figures engraved on a cream back-ground. We understand that they know the tint of cream required as they have previously supplied us with similar dash board units for the 40/50 HP. This matter is urgent, and in particular we should like the cream scale at the earliest possible moment. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||