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).
Suggestion for a master switch to alternate the steering wheel button's function between the horn and flashing headlights.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 59\3\ Scan297 | |
| Date | 21th September 1934 | |
| To "Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}" Derby WST 81069 Showrooms Sr/EWP{Mr Punt}3/MLG.21.9.34 Re: Operation of horns at night time R.R. Cars With reference to your enquiry regarding the klaxon switch cut-out for silent zone periods, I would like to put forward the following suggestion for your consideration - When driving in town, and instead of using one's klaxon, one has to flick on an off the head lamps and to do this it means driving with one hand and keeping the other hand on the head lamp switch on the instrument board, which is not convenient. Would it be possible to have a master switch conveniently placed on the instrument board which at night time would be switched over in a position to cut off the klaxon from the steering wheel button and would automatically connect up the head lamps with the button on the steering wheel so that one would have then the option of flicking head lamps on an off by means of the klaxon switch ? "Sr" | ||