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).
Design of framed instruments, including the Watford clock, dial branding, and finish of the instrument casting.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\Q\July1927-September1927\ Scan074 | |
| Date | 25th August 1927 | |
| FROM DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} C. to - HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ORIGINAL DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/M25.8.27. Y8530 re. FRAMED INSTRUMENTS. We have obtained the Watford clock and fitted it to the patch, which R.{Sir Henry Royce} has taken to Sales this morning. In future we suggest that the maker's name or trade mark appear on the dials as well as our own. This is so on some of the dials on the sample patch, but not all. We would like the hands of the thermometer and the oil gauge to be identical. The present oil gauge is quite good, and the thermometer would do well to have one like it. The interior surface of the aluminium casting containing the instruments, which faces the polished back of the mount, in future should be enamelled dead white. R.{Sir Henry Royce} is very pleased with the scheme now, and urges us to get it available for the customer as soon as possible. DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}/EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} lzge md o-H | ||