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).
Summary report of defects related to speedometers, revolution counters, and clocks, detailing issues over a six-month period.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 146\2\ scan0038 | |
| Date | 30th December 1936 guessed | |
| -86- 95. DEFECTIVE SPEEDOMETER December quarter C.C. 6 6 C.P. Previous quarter C.C. 8 C.P. 1 9 LIST Six months 15 96. CABLE OF SPEEDOMETER NOISY December quarter C.C. 2 C.P. 1 3 Previous quarter C.C. C.P. 1 Six months 4 97 (a) REVOLUTION COUNTER NOISY OR INEXACT (b) CLOCK DEFECTIVE December quarter C.C. 6 6 C.P. Previous quarter C.C. 5 C.P. 1 6 Six months 12 98. CABLE OF REVOLUTION COUNTER NOISY. December quarter C.C. 3 C.P. 1 4 Previous quarter C.C. C.P. Six months 4 B.66.EF - 27868 kms.- Speedometer Jams Had repaired outside. B.100.HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales} - 1308 kms.- Day trip recorder not working Had same repaired outside. B.260.GA - 10744 kms.- Ditto as above. B.18.HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales} - 3106 kms.- " " B.125.GP - 7154 kms.- Speed indicator needle does not return to zero.Had same repaired outside. B. 6.HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales} - 3669 kms.- Day trip recorder not working Had same repaired outside. We are getting more complaints of defective speedometers. B. 41.GP - new car - oiled cable. B.102.HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales} - 1000 kms.- " " B.154.GA - 8150 kms.- " " (b) B.226.GA - 12050 kms.- Clock on slow side Clock found to have very little wrong with it (a) B. 66.EF - 27868 kms.- Had same repaired outside (b) B.260.GA - 10744 kms.- Clock does not work Had same repaired outside. (a) B. 10.GA - 20172 kms.- Inexact.Had same attended to outside. (b) B.244.GA - 9641 kms.- clock overwound.otherwise OK. (b) B. 6.HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales} - 3669 kms.- clock overwound, otherwise OK. We are getting more complaints re the above than we used to . B. 18.HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales} - 3106 kms.- oiled the cable. B. 41.GP - new car " cable. B.102.HK{Col. T. Harker - Sales} - 1000 kms.- " " B.154.GA - 8150 kms.- " " | ||