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).
Testing of a sample electric instrument board clock from Gent & Co.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\1\ img054 | |
| Date | 2nd November 1931 | |
| X6024 To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst from ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} c.c. to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} ROY{Sir Henry Royce}5/MG2.11.31 ELECTRIC INSTRUMENT BOARD CLOCKS Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.3/AD30.10.31 - Kindly note Messrs. Gent & Co. of Leicester, are sending forward a sample Instrument Board Electric Clock - which please arrange to test out, and let us have a report in due course. They advise that this clock has been under test in their Works for the last two weeks, and they now await the result of our practical test with same on a car. ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} P.S. You will note they have fitted the Clock into our case. | ||