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).
Request to modify speedometer No. X.635 for use in a Bentley car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 165\2\ img242 | |
| Date | 14th May 1940 | |
| 6065 To HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH.{R. Hollingworth} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} Modification of Speedometer No. X.635. We wish to have speedometer No. X.635, calibration 730 revs/mile, made suitable for a Bentley car. Will you, therefore, please have this instrument sent to the Makers with the request that they overhaul it, and fit a Bentley scale reading up to 110 miles per hour. In adjusting the instrument, the calibration valve should remain at 730 r.p.mile. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} | ||