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 replacement of a faulty experimental C.A.V. regulator on car 35-EX.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 166\2\ img211 | |
| Date | 19th July 1938 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} c. RC{R. Childs}/CAP. 6092 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs}7/MH.{M. Huckerby}19.7.38. C.A.V. REGULATOR ON 35-EX. The experimental 2 1/4 turn regulator No.66303 fitted on car 35-EX is reported to have failed occasionally through the contacts sticking. Will you please arrange to have this unit removed and a new one of the same type, No.60728, fitted. At the same time a quantity of 28 S.W.G. tinned copper fuse wire should be fitted in the distribution board cover, for the purpose of renewing the special O.T. armature fuse. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} | ||