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).
The difficulty in sourcing a suitable generator for a customer's car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168a\3\ img353 | |
| Date | 4th March 1937 | |
| 6099 W/S. To Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wst. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wst.8/AP.4.3.37. Re. Mr.Wagner. Will you please ring up Mr.Wagner and tell him we are unable to get hold of a suitable generator for his car, as the best promise we have received so far for a special generator of this nature is 25 - 30 weeks, in view of the fact that a certain amount of development work is necessary to produce the right type of windings etc. We have approached two firms and that is the best we can get out of them. I should like you to ask him if he has succeeded in getting any promise from any other firm better than ourselves. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wst. | ||