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).
Advertisement for 'The Essential' face screen, a personal wind protection device for motorists.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 23\3\ Scan050 | |
Date | 14th February 1922 | |
X1087 RECEIVED H.R.C. 14 FEB 1922 The “ESSENTIAL” FACE SCREEN STUDY YOUR COMFORT. SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT. THE problem of effective protection from the elements when motoring, on either car or side car, would seem to permit of a very much more simple solution than that afforded by the average wind screen of to-day The object of the wind screen is the protection of the person, yet by some strange law the wind screen is placed at the furthest possible point from the person, and side currents are thereby set up often worse in their effects than the open blast. The “ESSENTIAL” wind screen, which is worn practically as a mask, gives all the protection called for, the ears and the side of the head are equally protected, side currents are warded off, and by the very simple expedient of bringing the screen into close contact with the person to be protected, all the advantages of the costly, cumbersome wind screen, and others which the average wind screen, placed where it now is, cannot possibly give, are ensured at a twentieth part of the cost, a fraction of the weight, and with an amount of convenience which only those who have tried an “Essential” Screen can appreciate. PRICE 7/6 EACH. SOLE CONCESSIONNAIRES: J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} W. PICKAVANT & CO., Chemico Works, Bradford St.{Capt. P. R. Strong}, Birmingham (BRANCH OF THE COUNTY CHEMICAL CO. LTD.) LONDON DEPOT: 73 GREAT PORTLAND STREET, W.1. | ||