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).
Performance of a Benjamin fog lamp and suggesting a comparison test with a Lucas lamp.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61a\2\ scan0371 | |
| Date | 16th October 1934 | |
| 86116. To C. from E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} E.6/HP.16.10.34. C.C. Mr. Cox, Mr. Evernden, Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. [text struck through] [Illegible text struck through] Fog Lamp on Chassis. Referring to C.19/C.12.10.34, I was initially responsible for urging that we should fit a fog lamp but my experience extending over a number of winters in Derby has been based on a Benjamin lamp fitted with a prismatic front glass. This lamp throws a very flat fan shaped beam and is extraordinarily good on the road under foggy conditions, enabling one to proceed at a steady speed where progress was otherwise almost impossible and certainly unsafe. I do not know what the Lucas lamp is like but did arrange to fit one and was allotted a lamp for this purpose. Unfortunately I gave this lamp up to a customer who wanted one fitted in a hurry, and since then it has not been replaced. I think it will be as well if I get a Lucas fitted to my car in addition to the Benjamin so that I can try them one against the other, under the same conditions. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||