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).
The performance of thermostatic shutter control and a safety concern regarding an unfused Lucas windscreen wiper.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 5a\2\ 02-page402 | |
| Date | 14th April 1931 guessed | |
| -2- Thermostatic Shutter Control. Whilst there is no question as to the extreme desirability of this method of control, we have yet not had an opportunity of driving one of our cars so controlled which was capable of retaining reasonably [struck out word] the temperature of the water when going downhill, or enabling a temperature of as much as 75° cent. to be acquired when the car was pottering about, i.e. this higher rise of temperature could be achieved only if the car was being run "all out". Lucas Windscreen Wiper. It would appear that someone, more enthusiastic about research than safety, connected this extremely unsatisfactory device to the battery circuit without considering it necessary to include a suitable fuse, with the result that considerable damage might have been easily occasioned. May we take it that this sort of happening could not occur in ordinary car production, other than due to carelessness? PH. | ||