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 an examination of a faulty speedometer reported to be jumping in and out of gear.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 165\2\ img060 | |
| Date | 18th March 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} 6065 Wst/RC.{R. Childs}3/JH.18.3.37. Will you please instruct for the speedometer on 5-B-IV to be examined as it has been reported that this instrument is faulty. "Jumps in andout of gear". It is quite probable that the speedometer drive has become unscrewed at the back. Wst/RE. | ||