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The return of a speedometer for examination and correction.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 165\2\  img245
Date  14th May 1940
  
File 6065

To D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /BH. from HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /CP.
c. H {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} /Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
c. G {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} /Lt.
c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /RC {R. Childs} :

HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /CP.2/SW.14.5.40.

0/52444

We hand you herewith :-

1 - Speedometer No. Y.78 (Calibration 728 miles)

Will you please despatch same to-day certain per passenger train to :-

Messrs. A.T. Speedometer Co., Ltd.,
Chronus Works,
North Circular Road,
London N.W.2.

addressed for the attention of Mr. Arrowsmith.

This speedometer is our property, being returned for examination and correction, and no charge should be attached to same.

HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /CP.
  
  
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).


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