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).
Letter from Weston Electrical Instrument Company regarding the compatibility of a returned instrument with its shunts and resistance box.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 33\4\ Scan149 | |
| Date | 12th November 1917 | |
| Form 1.M. 2.16. X.3035. X.1782 Weston Electrical Instrument Company. TELEPHONE NO. 2029 HOLBORN. London Manager, A.{Mr Adams} DAVY, M.I.E.E. HEAD OFFICE & WORKS, WAVERLY PARK, NEWARK, N.J., U.S.A. TELEGRAPHIC & CABLE ADDRESS, "PIVOTED, LONDON." A.B.C. CODE AND LIEBER. INLAND TELEGRAMS, "'PIVOTED, SMITH, LONDON'" MANUFACTURERS OF Electrical Measuring Instruments and Appliances. In your reply please refer to LONDON OFFICE & LABORATORY, Audrey House, Ely Place, Holborn. London, E.C. November 12th, 1917. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Limited. Nightingale Road, DERBY. X 178 2 Dear Sirs, Ref. Wd{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead}/W3/E101117. In reply to yours of the 10th inst, we beg to advise you that the instrument that you have returned to us is not supposed to be used with the shunts you have returned or with the external resistance box. We should like to know if you are using these shunts and the resistance box with the instrument for which they were originally adjusted, or if we are to change the adjustment to make them suitable for the instrument that you have sent in to us. Will you kindly advise us upon this point. Yours truly, WESTON ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENT COMPANY. Davy | ||