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 for an instrument board, including speedometer, tachometer and shock damper controls.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 179b\1\ img157 | |
| Date | 14th February 1932 | |
| TO [REDACTED] FROM EV.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} EVI/14.II.32. COPY TO SG.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} WCH. HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} SY. RE INSTRUMENTS AND BOARD. B.3. X6141 X4553 Many thanks for your E.3/HP.II.II.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 there 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 [REDACTED] Derby are doing the schemes for the controls for these dampers. Could you therefore send to us [REDACTED] 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} [STAMP: RECEIVED RRL NOV 25 1932] | ||