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).
Installation of a radio set into a show car and recommending a service station.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 63\3\ scan0079 | |
| Date | 1st August 1934 | |
| S/W. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. C. to Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} C " Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} re- Radio. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.1/MA27.7.34. Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}22/KW1.8.34. We have decided to adopt your suggestion of fitting one of our Show cars with a radio set. We propose to put it into our 40/50 h.p. Enclosed-drive Limousine. In that event the set will be mounted in the back part of the body and not of course on the dashboard or under the scuttle. Would you please let me know in due course which set you recommend we should instal in this instance. Will you also please advise what you recommend for the aerial and where it should go, having regard to the type of body we are using, so that we can instruct the Coachbuilders to make any provision that may be necessary. From what you say it seems that the Ecko set is pretty good. We want it to be an English set anyhow in this instance. As soon as you advise us which set it should be we can then get in touch with the manufacturers to see what sort of fittings we have to use in the body. By the way I learned to-day that there is a Service Station for the installation of wireless sets called the Philco Car Radio Service Station, whose address is - Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex - Phone Ealing 2872. This concern has nothing to do with the Philco Radio Corporation. They merely work with their support and use their name. It is a separate concern entirely devoting themselves to the installation of wireless sets in motor cars. I suggested that their Mr.O'Dell should get into touch with you at sometime, in order to learn what you recommend by way of suppressors for R-R engines, so that they should do the right thing when they are called upon to instal a set in a Rolls-Royce. Cx.{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} Jhub | ||