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Letter to Joseph Lucas & Co. Ltd. concerning the placement and adjustment of lamps.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 167\1\  img372
Date  28th March 1941
  
Lamps

Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 11/ML.

28.3.41.

G.Lucas, Esq.,
Messrs Joseph Lucas & Co.Ltd.,
Great King Street,
BIRMINGHAM.19.

Dear Lucas,

Thank you for your letter of the 20th. March. It was our original intention that the lamp outer shell should be a fixture on the wing or catwalk so placed that the lamp faces should lie in a vertical plane relative to the ground.

The adjustment of the beams would be effected by a setting of the reflector, which should be carried out as on the lamps for the CornicheBentley streamlineExperimental Streamline Bentley B.23.A.Ed precursor to R Type Continental, never produced. This lamp had a reflector in which the adjustment consisted of a 3-point mounting, each point having a screw adjustment. Such a system of adjustment has to be used where the lamp body is wholly or in part a portion of the wing or catwalk.

Yours sincerely,
  
  
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).


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