Letter from Joseph Lucas Ltd. concerning the design and testing of new lamps and starter drives.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 167\1\ img370 | |
| Date | 20th March 1940 | |
| COPY. JOSEPH LUCAS LIMITED., GREAT KING STREET, BIRMINGHAM. 19. Yr. ref. Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 4/ML. Our.ref. OL/JAP. 20th. March. 1940. W.A.Robotham,Esq., Messrs Rolls-Royce Ltd., D E R B Y . Dear Robotham, I was particularly interested to get your drawings of the lamps for the new model and shall have pleasure in making them up with what speed we can these days. I have already seen our Experimental Department about them and will keep behind the job. You do not show any adjustment for the headlamp, neither is it clear how this can be arranged without upsetting the streamlineExperimental Streamline Bentley B.23.A.E effect. I am therefore proposing to provide the necessary articulation of the reflector within the lamp housing as an essential feature of the design unless I hear from you to the contrary. With regard to the rubber starter drive, after long delay we got in some new rubbers last week. These have been built into drives and we are doing a destruction test on one of them to see if we can record any improvement from a bench investigation before we have the benefit of your more practical road experience. I expect to be able to send off a couple of the new drives to you early next week if possible together with some test figures. With kind regards, Yours sincerely, (Signed...) Oliver Lucas. | ||
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).