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).
Requesting an order for a replacement flexible drive for an AC Speedometer, lost at the coachbuilders.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 165\2\ img114 | |
| Date | 7th September 1937 | |
| 6011. To HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/CEP. c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs}5/JH.7.9.37. re Flexible drive for AC. Speedometer on 6.B.IV. The flexible drive of the AC. speedometer on 6.B.IV has been lost at the coachbuilders; as this cannot be traced Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} has asked me to obtain another. Will you please order from the AC. Sphinx Sparking Plugs Ltd., Dunstable, Beds. a flexible drive suitable for use with this speedometer. The length of cable casing unit and details at the bottom end, to be identical to that previously supplied to us for use on the Bentley chassis. O/N.54107. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} | ||