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).
Reliability and installation of a new clock-faced petrol gauge, comparing it to existing instruments.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61\3\ scan0021 | |
| Date | 5th April 1930 | |
| X4523 X7777 X4523 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Oy. c. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. Smn. ------------------ Oy6/DM.{D. Munro}April 5/30. Petrol Gauge. Sec.7190. ------------------ Yours of Feb.13/30 re K.S. 3 pipe instrument and New Nivex. We should certainly like a clock faced instrument if reliable, even more so if it were represented in the U.S., but we shall have trouble in making a neat installation if we have to put a pump on the dash. Also, I do not see that any provision is made to prevent volatile parts of the fuel from being carried into the line and condensing in it, forming "slugs" which alter the reading. I think you would have to go a long way to beat the gauge on 404 MR for general usefulness. OY. | ||