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).
Urgent need to obtain more satisfactory electrical equipment and to cease using parts from Lucas, suggesting approved alternatives or purchasing from the U.S.A.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 182\M16\ img036 | |
| Date | 16th June 1921 | |
| Handwritten notes at top: newly telefaxed in transcribed copy ORIGINAL R.{Sir Henry Royce} THREATENS EVEN TO USE AMERICAN ELECTRICAL UNITS (AS PER SPRINGFIELD SHEET) Header: To Her. from R Copies to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} References: X.4215. X.3014L X.295. X.4215. X.4172 X. Body: BJ. telegraphed to you to-day as attached. Every endeavour should be made immediately to obtain a supply of more satisfactory equipment. Please inform me what you intend to do. I never intended to stop output, but I was urging you not to accept any more equipment from Lucas, and to obtain from any source available a more satisfactory dynamo, cut-out, switch and distributing board. The only ones approved by Mr. Clark and Mr. Hives are the Smith dynamo, the Bleriot cut-out, the Rolls-Royce distributing board, switch board and locked ignition. These are what I prefer. If you cannot get these, or something equally satisfactory in England, we had better purchase from U.S.A. the same plant as Springfield will be fitting to their cars. I believe there are ample supplies of very much better appliances in the U.S.A. than the Lucas equipment, which has proved so disastrous, and I expect the whole will have been scrapped at least on the U.S.A. cars. Stamp: FO R.{Sir Henry Royce} RECEIVED JUN 16 1921 | ||