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).
Urgent request for a 90 or 100 mph speedometer for a 40/50 model car destined for France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 50\4\ Scan074 | |
| Date | 2nd February 1925 | |
| 44308 To Wd {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} /Ms. from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 3/LG7.2.25. We require urgently - X8940 1 A.T. Speedometer suitable for a standard 40/50 Speedometer Drive (15-tooth axle) to read up to 90 m.p.h. instead of the usual 80 m.p.h. It would not matter if the dial was calibrated to 100 m.p.h. We should like to collect this Speedometer from the A.T. people on Wednesday the 11th. Feb. at their Works in London. The car is proceeding to France and we should like to fit this speedometer before it leaves. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||