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 the instrument board and controls for a mock-up car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 138\2\ scan0207 | |
| Date | 14th November 1932 | |
| TO E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} FROM EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} X231. EV{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/14.11.32. COPY TO SG.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} WOR.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} EY. RE INSTRUMENTS AND BOARD. B.3. X6141 Many thanks for your B.3/HP.11.11.32. re the above. We are working hard to get a design for use on the first mock-up car. The writer is calling on the A.T. people tomorrow with a view to seeing what chances ther are of getting a large size of speedometer and tachometer in a small oval patch with interior lighting. He is also going to see Messrs. Smiths if possible, as they own the former company. We note that we have to arrange for a hand control of the shock dampers. Hdy.{William Hardy} tells us that Derby are doing the schemes for the controls for these dampers. Could you therefore send to us a design for the control so that we can arrange our instrument board to suit? It will be appreciated that we can do little with the grouping of the instruments until we know what this control is like. EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} | ||