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 to coachbuilder Park Ward & Co. Ltd. concerning the dispatch and fitting of instrument board components for a 20/25 HP car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 55\1\ Scan096 | |
| Date | 19th November 1931 | |
| c. to Hn.{F. C. Honeyman - Retail orders} Expl. Dept. 85997. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}3/MJ. November 19th.1931. Messrs. Park Ward & Co. Ltd., Coachbuilders, 473, High Road, Willesden, London.N.W.10. Dear Sirs, We are sending to you today under separate cover, the following instrument board fittings for the 20/25 HP. body you are building for Sir Henry Royce. 1 Complete Switch box with two keys No.64. 69V. 1 Starting carburetter control plate. 1 Oil gauge (cream dial). 1 Thermometer (cream dial). 1 Ammeter (cream dial). All the above are instruments that will be made on the final car and we are sending them to you in order that you may fit them to the instrument board and spray the flanges green as required. We regret that we have not yet received the clock, telegauge, ammeter, and speedometer, from the makers; these will, however, be the same size as standard instruments, so that you can go ahead and cut out the instrument board for them. With regard to the other instruments, the warning lamp and K.S.telegauge flange which were sent to you on 20.10.31 (amongst other instruments) should be sprayed green and fitted to the board. We think this clears up the instrument board, if we do not receive the speedometer etc. from the makers in time to let you have them for spraying, we shall have to do it here. We are hoping to bring down the bonnet and front apron early next week (Monday or Tuesday) when the writer would like to have the opportunity of seeing the car. Yours faithfully, | ||