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).
Customer requests for thermometers on cars with thermostats, suggesting standardizing the fitting with a Foxboro' Thermometer due to issues with the Cambridge model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 78\1\ scan0130 | |
| Date | 9th September 1921 | |
| x.3565 [Stamp: RECEIVED CITY 1921] [Stamp: A.T.] AT 1 EW. from EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} [EW. is struck through] c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} [H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} is struck through] x3563 [struck through] x3565 X3566 [struck through] EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}1/H9.9.21. re. THERMOMETERS ON CARS FITTED WITH THERMOSTAT. x3563 There appears to be a general request from customers and agents for thermometers to be fixed in addition to thermostats, and in nearly all cases where we have fitted thermostats on cars originally delivered with out these fitted ( at customers expense) they have insisted that the thermometer should remain and not be removed. Although considerable trouble has been experienced with failures of the Cambridge Thermometer, a thermometer of the same type is looked upon as an essential fitting, and in view of the experience on American cars, and the experience we have had experimentally, there appears no reason at all why we should not standardise this fitting, using the Foxboro' Thermometer. EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} | ||