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 Peto & Radford discussing combining a water temperature indicator with a tail lamp failure indicator.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 60\3\ Scan011 | |
| Date | 7th April 1927 | |
| V45260 Works, Dagenham Dock, Essex TELEPHONE VICTORIA. 3667. 5 LINES PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE. TELEGRAMS CONCENTRATION, SOWEST, LONDON. Manufacturers of P&R Accumulators Established 1889 PETO & RADFORD Proprietors - Pritchett & Gold and E.P.S. Company Ltd. 50 GROSVENOR GARDENS LONDON S.W.1 DIRECTORS: SIR ARCHIBALD C. GOLD F.C. GRAHAM MENZIES G.R.N. MINCHIN WILLIAM PETO C.R.D. PRITCHETT T.W. PRITCHETT. YOUR REF. OUR REF. M {Mr Moon / Mr Moore} /5. 7th April 1927. E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Fowler Clark Esq., Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Fowler Clark, Mr. Royce showed me a device that is proposed for standardisation soon of a red light which becomes illuminated when the temperature of the water reaches a certain point. This, I think, is an excellent thing. You may remember some time ago I wrote to you about a tail lamp indicator which lit up a red light when the tail lamp went out and you said the thing works quite well but the objection to it was introducing another piece of apparatus. Well, now, if you are going to have this new red light anyhow, could you not make it also light up if the tail lamp fails without much extra complication? It is most annoying when one's tail lamp goes out and you do not know of it and the first thing you hear is a policeman calling your attention to the fact. Yours sincerely, G R N Minchin | ||