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).
Complaining about the failure of a Lucas windscreen wiper on car 18-G-IV.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 167\5\ img011 | |
| Date | 8th October 1931 | |
| X6115 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}1/KT.8.10.31. We are returning to you a Lucas Windscreen Wiper which failed on 18-G-IV. after very little use. The car had run 2,000 miles. The Lucas wiper is a poor job, the bronze gear wheel is altogether too weak for the work it has to do. The wiper is too flimsy and at speeds of over 40 mph. it is useless. We are seriously thinking of adopting another make of wiper. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/G.W.Hancock. | ||