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).
Faulty experimental Smith Impulse type electric clock and a request for its return to the makers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 164\1\ img212 | |
| Date | 3rd April 1939 | |
| 6026 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC{R. Childs}/CAP. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs}9/JH.3.4.39. Smith Impulse type electric clock. Experimental clock of the impulse type No. IV has been removed from car 27.G.VI. owing to report of failure. On three occasions it stopped and then began to lose time rapidly. Will you please arrange for this instrument to be returned to the makers for examination and repair. We should be glad to have their opinion as to the cause of the trouble. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} | ||