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).
Instruction to replace a B.G. type magneto with a Watford M.O.6. type on chassis 77-YX for customer Ambatielos, following a complaint.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\3\ Scan258 | |
| Date | 4th January 1922 | |
| X.4181C Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} A.T EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}/HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}23/04.1.22. Re. Chassis 77-YX. -- Ambatielos. E.J. has decided that we are to fit a Watford M.O.6. Watford Magneto to this car in place of the present B.G.type about which the customer complains. Will you therefore please place an M.O.6.type Watford Magneto on order, and obtain same for us as soon as ever possible. This is chargeable to Order No. 65197. In order that the fitting of this new type magneto may be carried out as speedily as possible, we have borrowed an M.O.6. Watford Magneto No. 50414 from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} which we are despatching to N. in accordance with yellow card 39685, on the understanding that we replace this as soon as possible. P/HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||