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 from E.K. Cole Ltd (EKCO) regarding the unsuitability of a car radio receiver and proposing solutions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 63\2\ scan0087 | |
| Date | 22th July 1935 | |
| W. S. VERRELLS Chairman & Managing Director E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} K.{Mr Kilner} COLE Sub-Managing Director E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} R.{Sir Henry Royce} PRING R.{Sir Henry Royce} E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} CORNWALL Directors EKCO ALL-ELECTRIC and BATTERY RADIO 76153. TELEGRAMS EKCO SOUTHEND-ON-SEA TELEPHONE SOUTHEND 49491 8 Lines RIC/JP E.K.COLE LTD EKCO WORKS SOUTHEND-ON-SEA 22nd July 1935. Rolls-Royce Ltd., DERBY. For the attention of Mr.West. Your Ref: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.13/MA. Dear Sirs, Thank you for your letter of the 19th inst. We regret to note that the receiver which we sent to London for your Managing Director's car is not considered suitable for the job. In the circumstances we shall, of course, be pleased to take the set back. However, we propose to call at your London Showrooms before doing so to see the car, in case we can see some means of fitting the set in a suitable position which has been overlooked by your London Office. If this difficulty cannot be overcome we are pleased to say that we shall soon be able to give you particulars of a new type of receiver which will shortly be added to our range of car sets, which employs an entirely new type of non-mechanical remote control and which will overcome all the difficulties of controlling radio from the back seat of limousines or from the instrument board where there is insufficient room for a direct control receiver. We shall be glad if you will consider these remarks as confidential. for the time being. With regard to the Radio Show, we propose having several instrument boards fitted with car radio receivers displayed on our stand at the Olympia Radio Show and should be glad if we might buy or borrow a Rolls-Royce or Bentley instrument board for this Contd... IMPORTANT NOTICE. "LIMITED LICENCE" "Ekco products are patented and are supplied upon condition that the recipient accepts a licence under the patents and agrees to sell only at the prices fixed by the Makers. Violation of this by anyone renders him liable for damages" | ||