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).
Agreeing to an order for instrument board clocks for the Phantom II and 20/25 models, while considering future proposals.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\1\ img049 | |
| Date | 28th October 1931 | |
| Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X6135 S/W. BY/Ogh. cc to Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}, Dd, Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}, Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}7/K28.10.31. re- INSTRUMENT BOARD CLOCKS. X6026 X6024 Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} has asked me to write to you in reply to your BY/Ogh3/G15.10.31 am to say that we agree to your ordering one dozen Boyce electric clocks for the Phantom II instrument board, and one dozen of the usual type for the ordinary form of instrument board as fitted on the 20/25. The latter will be used up on chassis which we allocate for Stock Cars, and therefore, although we do not include clocks as part of our standard equipment, they would naturally need to be incorporated in any complete cars which we put into our Showrooms. In connection with this matter you will no doubt bear in mind the contents of BY/Ogh7/G20.10.31 in which you hint at the possibility of producing a scheme for a grouped instrument board, and also the contents of Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst4/K29.10.31, which indicates that Messrs Smith & Sons are going to submit proposals for the manufacture of an instrument board complete with instruments and presumably a Smith clock. Possibly the latter will not materialise for some time, and we should easily be able to use up the 12 - 20/25 h.p. clocks which you propose to order, but it is just as well to see that there is no overlap in connection with these schemes which may leave certain clocks on our hands which we may find some difficulty in using up. Ox. | ||