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 addressing complaints about the dynamo's battery charging and requesting feedback on a new prototype Lucas wiper.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5a\3\ 03-page113 | |
| Date | 18th November 1931 | |
| V5840 G.W.Hancock Esq., Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Ha.5/MJ.18.11.31. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. Referring to your complaint that the dynamo does not keep the battery charged, we suggest that you will have to arrange so that you only keep the resistance running in the daytime sufficient time so that the battery will be kept charged. The original idea of running with the headlamps on was more to cater for summer conditions, whereas otherwise the lamps would not be used at all. As regards your complaint of the Lucas wiper, it would be useful if you could give us a report which we could send on to Messrs. Lucas as the wiper you have on that car is the first one of that type which has been made, and they would be very grateful for our criticisms. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||