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).
Requesting the purchase of a tenth-second clock for an apparatus to determine the minimum stopping distance of a car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 138\2\ scan0078 | |
| Date | 22th January 1937 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to G/HWH. We want to make a really accurate apparatus for determining the minimum stopping distance of any car, from a given speed. We have built the apparatus but are short of a time marker. Will you please purchase from The Cambridge Instrument Co. a tenth seconds clock with contact breaker, as used on the Chronograph No.C.48591, and listed as Catalogue No.31615 as a separate item, for the sum of £7. 0. 0. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale} | ||