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).
Returning a Bentley speedometer for recalibration due to it reading too fast.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 59\2\ Scan412 | |
Date | 27th June 1934 | |
86051. Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. c. to G/MT. d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} to D/BP. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.12/MA.27.6.34. BENTLEY SPEEDOMETER. We are sending into the stores one Bentley speedometer No.H.209. Will you please arrange to return this speedometer to the makers for the revs-per-mile figure to be altered to 724 and the scale corrected to our standard Bentley calibration. At present it is much too fast below 60 M.P.H. Order No.54107. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||