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 an inventor offering a license for his patented process for illuminating blind spots at intersections.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 167\1\ img359 | |
| Date | 20th April 1940 | |
| File in headlamps general. 6116 FSH Rolls-Royce Ltd Derby, England Cosme Fernandez Engineer Santander Spain P.O. Box No. 1 April 20, 1940 Dear Sirs, I have the pleasure of informing you that the patent of invention No. 148.147 has been granted me for: A PROCESS FOR AVOIDING THE BLINDING OF DRIVERS AND ILLUMINATING THE INVISIBLE ZONE IN THE INTERSECTION OF MECHANICAL TRACTION VEHICLES. This process, put into practice, has given results completely satisfactory and has been accepted by the ministry of Public Works for this nation of Spain, the which will oblige all cars, trucks, and buses to install this apparatus, and to that end will bring it into the Traffic Code. This, my idea, solves in a manner, simple, clear and definite the great inconvenience which exists at all intersections and for this reason makes it inevitable that all firms dedicated to the construction of cars and trucks should adopt it shortly in their new models, to incorporate it in the new lines (which will necessarily add elegance), preventing thereby a later affixture which would not harmonize with their beauty. I believe you will be greatly intersted in the purchase of the license for installation of said process in the cars you manufacture and for this reason permit me to offer it you. Let me advise you that I have written to the principal American and European firms which manufacture mechanical traction vehicles, and am in contact with some to whom the patented process seems very good. Awaiting your reply, I remain your attendant servant, C. Fernandez | ||