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 source more satisfactory electrical equipment and considering U.S.A. suppliers.
| Identifier | Morton\M16\ img036 | |
| Date | 13th June 1921 | |
| Handwritten: R.{Sir Henry Royce} THREATENS EVEN TO USE AMERICAN ELECTRICAL UNITS (AS PER SPRINGFIELD SHEET) Stamp: ORIGINAL To Wer. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Copies to H18/H13.6.21. X.4215. X.3014b. X.295. X.4215. X.4172 X. 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 urgin' 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} JUN 16 1921 RECEIVED | ||