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).
Telegram received by telephone reporting a burst dynamo and requesting a replacement machine.
| Identifier | Morton\M1.2\ img007 | |
| Date | 12th May 1922 | |
| R.R. 144A (100B.) SE 867. 9.7.18 MP 193871 ROLLS-ROYCE, LIMITED. ORIGINAL X-4383 TELEGRAM RECEIVED BY TELEPHONE. Time Received: 5.35 Date: 12.5.22 To: Royceau Derby By: MB from: Dover C.H. 58 HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/seen Platford Hives Dynamo com burst Send another machine to Lavel. This was the 3rd commutator to fail - the one was -> GTT, 1 6TT & 5 GTT had already failed. FROM: Haldenly THIS SHEET MUST BE FILED. | ||