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 to C.L. Breeden regarding a plant visit, post-war manufacturing, and testing of Turbo transmitters.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 156\4\ scan0111 | |
| Date | 30th December 1939 | |
| 1350 Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}9/MH.{M. Huckerby} November. 30th. December, 1939. C.L. Breeden, Esq., Messrs. Wilmot-Breeden Ltd., Eastern Works, BIRMINGHAM, 1. Dear Breeden, Thank you very much for entertaining us on Tuesday. I was very interested in seeing your plant and I am sure that you can help us with our post-war problem of manufacturing a high grade car at a reasonable price. I will get Mr. Green to come round and talk to you, and I hope that if you cannot actually fabricate what he wants you will be able to put him on to somebody who has the right quality at the right price. I have been looking over the information we have on Turbo transmitters and am not very satisfied that the reports on the subject are entirely fair to the device. It is the old story of the engineer who has accelerometers and mechanical efficiency standards overlooking the fact that ease of control can over-ride many more scientific virtues when it comes to the opinion of the man in the street. I therefore welcome your suggestion of sending your son over here with a car fitted with the transmitter to talk it over with us. As a matter of fact, we really should have it fitted to one of our cars and drive it a few thousand miles before we give a report on it. I do not know whether it is possible to obtain another unit similar to the one fitted on the Humber, but this would be the right size for some of our range. | ||