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).
Telegram reporting a dynamo commutator failure and requesting a replacement machine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 180\M1\2\ img007 | |
| Date | 12th May 1922 | |
| R.R. 144A (100B.) SE 867. 9.7.18 MP [1938?] ROLLS-ROYCE, LIMITED. ORIGINAL [stamp] M.D [stamp] X-4383 TELEGRAM RECEIVED BY TELEPHONE. Time Received: 5.35 Date: 12 5 22 To: Royceau Derby By: JNB from: Dover RECEIVED 12 MAY 1922 [stamp] CH/S-8 HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/seen Platford Hives Dynamo com burst. Send another machine to Laval This was the 3rd commutator to fail - then one was 7 GII, 6 GII & 5 GII had already failed FROM Haldenby THIS SHEET MUST BE FILED. | ||