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).
Letter from Philco Radio concerning the installation of an H.T. wire and a previous complaint.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 63\2\ scan0262 | |
| Date | 7th August 1936 | |
| 861553. PHILCO PHILCO RADIO AND TELEVISION CORPORATION OF GREAT BRITAIN, LTD. AFDK/AED "Car Radio Division" Perivale, Greenford, Middlesex Telephone - - - - Perivale 3344 Telegrams - - Philcorad, Greenford In reply please quote 7th August 1936. (Dictated 6th) H.E. West, Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., D E R B Y. Dear Mr. West, In reply to your letter of the 4th instant I would advise that we never cover the H.T. wire from the coil to the distributor with metal braided cable and so far as we know neither do any of our Installation Stations. It will therefore be necessary for you to ascertain by whom the installation was carried out if you wish us to take this matter up with the concerned. We would also like to point out to you that Mr. Sidgreave's car was sent down to us by Rolls-Royce London as an example of what a car radio installation should be, and one point on this which we condemned was the very point of which you are now complaining, and yet your own London Office appear to have allowed this work to be carried out by the London Coachbuilders who built the body. We believe that it was Messrs. Hoopers Ltd. Yours truly, A.F.D. Knight Manager CAR RADIO DIVISION, aed Directors: James M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Skinner, U.S.A., C. L. Dyer, H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} W. McAteer, U.S.A., T. F.{Mr Friese} Williams, U.S.A., Viscount Hinchingbrooke, E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} C. Baillie, C.A. Managing Director: Carleton L. Dyer. | ||