Returning a Bentley speedometer for recalibration due to it reading too fast.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 59\2\ Scan412 | |
| Date | 27th June 1934 | |
| 86051. Roy. {Mr H. Royce - Buyer} From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst. c. to G {Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} /MT. d. {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} to D {John DeLooze - Company Secretary} /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. | ||
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).