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).
Meeting with the Delco Company regarding battery ignition distributors and a manufacturing proposal.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 37\1\ scan 042 | |
| Date | 6th December 1918 | |
| X-3199 To R.{Sir Henry Royce} from BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} &: to EFC. (struck through) December 6, 1918. BY/7/P61218. X.3129 X.3199 X.3296. X 3199 SCHEME RE BATTERY IGNITION. X.2894 X.3296 X.3173 X 7812 Mr. Kennington of the Delco Company, paid a visit to our works last Monday, with the object of bringing before us certain propositions from the Headquarters of his Company. He ostensibly based his visit upon the fact that he was bringing with him two Delco Distributors to replace those which Mr. Olley had sent from America - his reason for making the change was, that with the moulded in coil on the original scheme the flexibles were fairly straight, and certain cases had occurred where these connections had broken. In the distributors which he brought with him the flexible was not run straight from the coil to the terminal, but curved about in order to allow plenty of flexibility. Although Mr. Olley had stated that in supplying us with three distributors originally from the States, two were one hand and the remaining one was for running in the opposite direction, a careful examination of the distributors revealed the fact that the Delco people had supplied the distributors all for one hand - this fault Mr. Kennington proposes to rectify The real reason for Mr. Kennington's visit cam out, however, in the proposition he had been empowered to make to us from Headquarters, namely, that the Delco Company were actually prepared to manufacture any parts, or all of our Contd. | ||