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).
Design and sourcing of framed instrument panels for show cars and customers.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\Q\July1927-September1927\ Scan049 | |
| Date | 13th August 1927 | |
| TO HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}) FROM DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} (DY.{F R Danby} crossed out) ORIGINAL DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}3/M13.8.27. re. FRAMED INSTRUMENTS. X8530 X4308 / X7530 X4662 L We are urging Sales to get this fitted to the Show cars instead of the grouped arrangement which they have proposed. They ask for a set to fit up on a car, and we suggest that you send to us the set you have made up for EAC. 7. first car, when we will send it on to them after we have viewed it. It is more urgent to get a move on to have the scheme available for the customer than to have it on EAC. 7. Two sets were instructed in DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}2/M41026., one for EAC. 7. and one for Sales. We leave it to you to fit the best dials you have at the moment, and also the instruments that are available. We would like to hear - (1) Why F75559., does not shew the A.T. speedometer with a trip as suggested on N. sch. 2226., and whether the A.T. people have made such an instrument? (2) What date Messrs North & Sons will supply a suitable clock? (3) Why we have not got old English type dials* like the sample you submitted to us in your BY7/H10926., and which we chose in DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}1/M41026. If we have been told that this was subsequently found impossible, we believe R.{Sir Henry Royce} would have agreed to the use of white dials such as are now agreed to for the petrol gauge. MADE AT CROXLEY DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||