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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 detailing Mr. Royce's dissatisfaction with a lighting installation at West Wittering and suggestions for alternative components.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 38\3\  Scan069
Date  11th November 1918
  
E1/111118
X.3362.
WEST WITTERINGHenry Royce's home town
11th Nov 18

re Lighting installation at West WitteringHenry Royce's home town.

EFC from E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer}

Thank you for sending the porcelain switch. I am returning this under separate cover. See criticism hereafter.

Mr. Royce is rather angry about the matter of the lighting installation. He is somewhat disgusted with the switch board, fuse boxes & switches you sent him. He thinks they are rough, shoddy & of the wrong proportion for the job. He does not approve of this sort of material & would not put it on his walls where it would be taken as a sample of what he thought was right. Mr Royce says he has all along asked for something small on the lines of a car lighting set.

We have some neat brass switches on the Calcott. These are 1.5" in diameter. The various car lighting firms may be able to help you in this matter.

The lighting of a car is carried out with a distributing board, being very often arranged with a row of switches underneath a row of fuses thus:-

The whole thing should be a neat workmanlike job, including the woodwork which should not be varnished or
  
  


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