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).
Urgent request to A.T. Speedometer Co. Ltd. for an experimental speedometer for a Bentley chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 165\4\ img326 | |
| Date | 21th September 1935 | |
| 86051. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.3/MA. 21st September, 1935. The A.T.Speedometer Co.Ltd., Chronos Works, North Circular Road, London, N.W.2. For the attention of Mr.H.R.Buckland. Dear Sir, We urgently require for an experimental Bentley chassis which is due on the Continent this week-end, a standard (lightened) type speedometer with the revs per mile 759 and with the dial marked to 110 M.P.H. The dial can be hand marked for this particular chassis. Will you kindly phone the undersigned whether you could produce this instrument at our Works by Friday the 27th instant. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||