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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).
Instructions for producing a moulded top horn button for the Wraith and Bentley III models to eliminate rattles.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 168a\2\  img376
Date  28th March 1938
  
To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}
c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/BC.
c/o RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/CAH

6139.

BY/RD.4/B.28.3.38.

HORN SWITCH : SEC.8050.
Wraith & Bentley III - D.CD.544.

In order to produce a Horn Button having a moulded top in order to eliminate rattles, we hand you herewith blueprints of :-

DW.631 - Spring.
DW.632 - Support.
DW.633 - Horn Button.
DW.634 - Horn Switch LOP.

The remainder of the parts on the LOP. are Wraith pieces.

Will you please put in hand one sample set for Wraith, together with a set for Bentley III.

We have indicated on the drawing of the Button - DW.633, how, for experimental purposes, it can be made without producing a die.

This completes the instructions.

BY/RD.
  
  


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