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).
Tests on cooling water temperature, resulting in the instruction to cease fitting and remove dashboard screens.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 24\4\ Scan009 | |
Date | 4th October 1912 | |
[Handwritten top]: Dealt with [underlined] D766 [Handwritten]: Distribution [crossed out] + Ventilation [double underlined] X 17 N5/B41012. [Stamped]: 11 OCT 1912 [Distribution List]: Mr Halford Mr Platford Mr Bailey Mr Barrington Mr Ogilvy 4-10-12 Re Temperature of Cooling Water. Mr Johnson carried out a number of tests whilst on the Continent with a view to finding the difference in temperature of the cooling water with the lower part of the dashboard open and closed. He found a very marked difference and suggests that we should immediately cease to fit the screen and leave the dashboard open. Mr Barrington has the figures and I am asking him to publish them in the usual way. [Handwritten]: Sent Will you kindly do this. I have issued instructions this morning that the screen shall be removed from those cars in our hands. [Signature] | ||