Electrical installation errors found on a car (model 6 EX) and the subsequent provision of complete diagrams to prevent recurrence.
| Identifier | Morton\M22\ img119 | |
| Date | 1st September 1920 | |
| To EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} from R. {Sir Henry Royce} Copy to CJ. " " BN. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} " " HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} " " DA. {Bernard Day - Chassis Design} " " BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} [Handwritten annotations at top] R STILL NIGGLED ABOUT SHODDY ELECTRICS ON 6 EX. STATES EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} FOR NOT PERSONALLY INSPECTING & CRITICISING IT (AS R WOULD UNDOUBTEDLY HAVE DONE). R NOW GIVES EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} COMPLETE & WATERTIGHT DESIGNS & DIAGRAMS TO ELIMINATE RECURRENCE OF MISUNDERSTANDING. [Stamped] ORIGINAL [Handwritten reference numbers] X.3923B. X.3659. RE ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT AND 6 EX. I am in receipt of your memo with reference to the above. I am not so much concerned in the fact that the errors on 6 EX. had been done in the shops as the fact that the car came to me without anybody finding them out. I should cer- tainly have considered that in a case like this you should have inspected the electrical installation and criticised it, using a pilot lamp, voltmeter or galvanometer, to find out what cir- cuits were alive. You will realise that now we have sent you complete designs and diagrams there should be no possibility of any misunderstanding. R. {Sir Henry Royce} [Stationery mark at bottom] W W S & S Ltd. (100 L 03 A 240 8/19) G 1020 | ||
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).