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).
Customer objection regarding the new, hard-to-locate instrument board light switch on the Phantom III model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168a\1\ img054 | |
| Date | 25th November 1936 | |
| 6135 to from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} a.{Mr Adams} to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} d.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} to Yst. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}7/R.25.11.36. INSTRUMENT BOARD LIGHT - P.III. From the customer's point of view we have one definite objection to the new type of switch, i.e., the instrument board light is no longer located in the switch-box. In our opinion in the past, the one saving grace of the Instrument board has been the fact that one could locate, at least one lighting switch, instantly. At the present moment on the P.III it is quite possible to fiddle about for 5 minutes pulling out different knobs before one can get an instrument board light. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||