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 from GEC concerning the installation of a car radio receiver in a Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 63\2\ scan0122 | |
| Date | 7th October 1935 | |
| CONTRACTORS TO H.M.ADMIRALTY, INDIA OFFICE, WAR OFFICE, G.P.O. AND THE LEADING HOME AND OVERSEAS RAILWAYS. REGISTERED TRADE MARK Telegraphic Address: ELECTRICITY, WESTCENT, LONDON. Telephone (LONDON) TEMPLE BAR 8000 (70 LINES) SPECIAL TRUNK LINE UP TO 6 P.M. TEMPLE BAR 2051. MANUFACTURERS OF EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL. HEAD OFFICE: Magnet House, Kingsway, LONDON, W.C.2. Cable Address: POLYPHASE, LONDON. Codes: NEW STANDARD. LOMBARD. WESTERN UNION (5 LETTER EDITION.) A.B.C. (6TH EDITION.) AND PRIVATE. Handwritten: 86153. Date: October 7th, 1935. TELEPHONE EXTENSION. 61. YOUR REF. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.11/KW. OUR REF. BC/HLR. TO ENSURE PROMPT ATTENTION PLEASE QUOTE ABOVE REFERENCE. WORKS: WITTON, BIRMINGHAM. COVENTRY. MANCHESTER. HAMMERSMITH, WEMBLEY. LEMINGTON-ON-TYNE. ERITH. SOUTHAMPTON. LONDON. HOME BRANCHES: ABERDEEN, BELFAST, BIRMINGHAM, BLACKBURN, BLACKPOOL, BRIGHTON, BRISTOL, CARDIFF, CORK, CROYDON (WEST), DUBLIN, DUNDEE, EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, GLOUCESTER, HULL, INVERNESS, IPSWICH, LEEDS, LEICESTER, LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, MIDDLESBROUGH, NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, NOTTINGHAM, PLYMOUTH, SHEFFIELD, SOUTHAMPTON, STOKE-ON-TRENT, SWANSEA. OVERSEAS COMPANIES: AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, PERTH, NEWCASTLE. (BRANCH AGENCIES AT Adelaide, Brisbane, Hobart & Suva) NEW ZEALAND: WELLINGTON, AUCKLAND, & CHRISTCHURCH. CHINA & MANCHURIA: SHANGHAI, HONG KONG AND DAIREN. (BRANCH AGENCIES AT Hankow & Tientsin). FEDERATED MALAY STATES & STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. SINGAPORE & KUALA LUMPUR. INDIA: CALCUTTA, BOMBAY, MADRAS, LAHORE, CAWNPORE. KARACHI & RANGOON. SOUTH AFRICA: JOHANNESBURG, CAPE TOWN, DURBAN & PORT ELIZABETH. (BRANCH AGENCIES AT Bulawayo, Salisbury, N'Dola & East London) SOUTH AMERICA: BUENOS AIRES. FRANCE: PARIS. HOLLAND: THE HAGUE. AGENCIES IN ALL OTHER PRINCIPAL TOWNS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. Messrs. Rolls-Royce, Ltd., Exptl. Dept., DERBY. Attention of H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} West, Esq., Experimental Department Dear Sirs, G.E.C. CAR RADIO. Further to the writer's interview with you at your Works about a month ago, we gather that you subsequently arranged with our Telephone Works, Coventry, for the despatch of one of our BC.3657 Car Radio Receivers to Derby, as you found it more convenient to fit this equipment yourselves to the new Rolls "Bentley" Car which we discussed. As we do not appear to have heard anything further from you since the despatch of this receiver, we will be glad to know whether the installation has proved quite satisfactory. Should you have found any difficulty in connection with interference suppression, etc. which you have been unable to cure, we will be glad to arrange for one of our engineers to visit your Works if we can assist you thereby. We await the favour of your reply. Yours faithfully, For and on behalf of THE GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. LTD., (Signature) Wireless Dept. ENCLOSURES: TO ENSURE PROMPT ATTENTION MATTERS REFERRING TO VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS SHOULD BE WRITTEN ON SEPARATE SHEETS. | ||