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).
Letter clarifying that a recurring issue with side lamps was due to faulty bulbs, not the car's electrical system.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 54\5\ Scan088 | |
Date | 22th April 1926 | |
PETO & RADFORD. CONTINUATION 2. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Fowler Clark Esq., 22nd April 1926. With regard to your question about how is my car behaving. It is behaving extraordinarily well. I ought to have told you that I was wrong in putting down the question of the side lamps burning out as being due to the high voltage. After I had written to you I happened to mention the fact to Mr. Oliver Lucas and he said that a consignment of bulbs had got through from the lamp manufacturers about that time with the wrong filament, and he sent me some others in their place and confirms that mine were among the faulty ones and since I put the new ones on I have done about 5,000 miles without any trouble at all. As there was trouble with these side lamps on other makes of cars with different electrical system, the trouble evidently was lamp trouble and not due to our battery or your dynamo or anything to do with the Rolls Royce system. I ought to have told you about this before. I met Mr. Platford and he reminded me I had not been up to see you since December and I will come up again shortly, some time in May. Yours sincerely, G.R.N. Minchin | ||