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).
The need for a dashboard reading fuel gauge due to integrated trunks making the standard gauge unreadable.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 44\3\ Scan132 | |
| Date | 18th December 1928 | |
| A.J.L. x9038 Please carry out temp test on over night loss as soon as possible To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Dashboard Reading Gauge. You will appreciate that with the increase in the demand for adequate luggage capacity at the back of our cars the importance of our having a dashboard reading gauge is becoming more to the front. So many cars are now being built with the trunk as part of the general design, and this very often renders our standard gauge unreadable. I know that we have been experimenting for many months with the Hobson, and I should be glad if you would kindly let me know how this stands at the present time from the point of view of the present type chassis, and what is being arranged for "SS{S. Smith}" and 20 HP G-4. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||