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).
New Lucas screen wiper with a remote motor, comparing it to the existing Klaxon model, and proposing tests on a Bentley and Phantom III.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 167\5\ img153 | |
| Date | 6th March 1936 | |
| W Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} c.c to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} HnZ/WL.6.3.36. Screen Wipers. Lucas have produced a new Wiper to be operated by a remote motor. The general idea of the Wiper is similar to that of the Klaxon we have been fitting for some years past, but it incorporates one or two novelties, the principle of which appeals to us and to the principal coachbuilders. This is a right angled connection between the flexible driving shaft from the motor to the driving shaft, which runs along the coachbuilders scuttle rail and operates the Wiper blades. With the Klaxon Wiper, as you know, the shaft from the motor has to be bent round to line up with the shaft in the scuttle rail, and the fairly sharp bend which is unavoidably causes quite a lot of trouble. Would you like to have a sample Lucas Wiper for bench tests, please, or may we go ahead and have one fitted to the body with improved entrance for a Bentley and the Enclosed Limousine for a long Phantom III chassis which Park Ward & Co., have in hand. Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} | ||