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).
Request to return a speedometer for alteration of the 'revs per mile' figure to suit a 12/41 axle.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 59\2\ Scan431 | |
| Date | 28th August 1934 | |
| 86051 Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. c. to D/BP. c. to C/MT. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.11/MA.28.8.34. A.T. SPEEDOMETER FOR SG{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}'S CAR. We are sending into the stores one A.T. Speedometer No.F.996, will you please arrange to return this to the makers for the revs per mile figure to be altered to 785 to suit the 12/41 axle. This speedometer is urgently required back again and we shall be glad if you will arrange to despatch it as quickly as possible. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||