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).
Performance of different wireless sets and their installation methods.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 63\2\ scan0198 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1936 | |
| x6153. WST S/W To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Wireless Sets. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}7/E3.3.36 [strikethrough]Copy to Cw.[/strikethrough] Referring to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.2/MA.29.2.36 I should be glad to know whether you have received the Marconi Wireless set free for test or whether we have bought it. I hope not as I do not think there is any need for us to keep on buying different makes of sets unless we know that there is something outstanding about them. The best results that I have heard up to the present time are from the Philips 246B set as fitted to Mr.Sclater Booth's Rolls-Royce car. The reults. are outstandingly good. It is not only the set but partly the method of installation. I have had the latter copied by their electrician (Hooper's) on my car with considerably improved results but not nearly as good as the Philips set on Mr.Sclater-Booth's car, which shows that it is the set and not the installation. I want us, however, to learn by the results obtained and shall be asking Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} to get in touch with you regarding our adoption of the method of installation, as used on mycar, which I know from experience has considerably improved it as compared with what it was. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||