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).
Delays with Lucas over the production of Bentley headlamps and proposing temporary solutions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61a\2\ scan0186 | |
| Date | 23th December 1933 | |
| WS -> S/W. (Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst) c. to Roy{Sir Henry Royce} c. to D/RP WST 86116. Hn{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders}2/I/23-12-33. . BENTLEY HEADLAMPS. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Ws t5/MA.21.12.33. We note the contents of the first paragraph of your Memo., which are not very encouraging. Moreover, our experience with Lucas over deliveries is such that we despair of their keeping anywhere near to the suggestion that production may start in four weeks' time. At the Olympia Show of 1932 they promised us P100 headlights with dipping reflectors and, although we have seen a few sample pairs, they are still not in production. We consider the best plan would be for you to persevere with your suggestion that ordinary plain Diffusa type glasses should be fitted to headlamps of the current type, pending the production of the new lamps. We think, if you insist on this being done, Lucas will give way. We also consider that you should get them to agree that, in the event of any of our customers to whom we are compelled to deliver cars fitted with the existing lamps with the plain Diffusa glasses complaining of the poor illumination they afford, they should without expense to ourselves either modify the lamps to bring them into line with the new production or, alternatively, change them over when supplies are available. We do not want to deliver cars with RB{R. Bowen}170 lamps, except as a last resort because we feel that if we once start doing this we may have to keep on. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||