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 H.M. Hobson, Ltd. regarding the urgent dispatch of a gauge head.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61\3\ scan0046 | |
| Date | 18th June 1930 | |
| X4038 CONTRACTORS TO THE ADMIRALTY, WAR OFFICE, AIR MINISTRY AND TO THE DOMINION & FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS. PLEASE ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS TO THE FIRM, NOT TO INDIVIDUALS. TELEPHONE: CHISWICK 4231. (4 LINES.) TELEGRAMS: "ASSEMBLAGE, LONDON." MANUFACTURERS OF: Hobson KS Petrol Telegage AND MOTOR ACCESSORIES. WORKS: LONDON AND WOLVERHAMPTON. OUR REF. TPS/MW YOUR REF. ENCLO. 1. H.M. HOBSON, LTD. (ESTABLISHED 1903) 47-55, ACTON VALE, LONDON, W.3. 18th June 1930. Messrs.Rolls-Royce,Ltd., Expl. Dept. Derby. For attention of W.A. Robotham,Esq., Dear Sirs, We beg to thank you for your telegram of last night, informing us that you urgently require a gauge head to modification 630.D for 40/50 h.p. car, similar to the 20 h.p. which we have sent you. We have all the parts for this gauge going through, and we shall be able to despatch it to you to-morrow night, if we receive the bezel or frameback from the finishers who do the enamelling for us. In the event of our not receiving it, and it being urgent that we should post it to you to-morrow night, we are wondering whether you could possibly use the bezel off the 20 h.p. instrument which we sent you, (as the parts are die-cast and | ||