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 requests to fit thermometers alongside thermostats and the reliability of different instrument manufacturers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 78\1\ scan0131 | |
| Date | 12th September 1921 | |
| X3563 R.{Sir Henry Royce} from BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. UJ. c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X3563 CHASSIS - WATER CONNECTIONS. RE THERMOSTAT EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}, has on several occasions raised the question that he considers we should fit a thermometer as well as a thermostat. It will be remembered that when the thermostat was fitted it was definitely decided to remove the thermometer but apparently we have a large number of requests from customers to fit a thermometer in addition to a thermostat. In a good many instances we are asked to fit thermostats on cars which were delivered without them, but in every case where this happens the customers insist that the thermometer must not be removed, as they find it a very useful instrument. We would like to point out that if it were decided to revert to the use of a thermometer with thermostats that apparently the Foxboro' thermometer is a more reliable instrument than the one produced by the Cambridge Instrument Company, as we have quite a lot of trouble from failure of the latter type, whereas we are informed by America that the Foxoboro gives very little trouble. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||