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).
Standardisation of fitting Foxboro' thermometers due to customer demand and issues with the Cambridge model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 78\1\ scan0129 | |
| Date | 9th September 1921 | |
| BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} * X.3456. X.3563 EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}1/H9.9.21. X.3565. - RE THERMOMETERS ON CARS FITTED WITH THERMOSTAT. 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 without 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} | ||