Correspondence dated 31 March 1955

Summary

An item from the surviving correspondence of William John Sands.

Historical context

This item forms part of the surviving William John Sands correspondence and is dated 31 March 1955. It is preserved in the William John Sands Family Archive as evidence of Sands’s professional work and relationships. The accompanying transcript was produced by machine OCR and should be checked against the original scan before being treated as a definitive reading.

Catalogue description

Original correspondence scan imported from the Sands and Ferguson family archive. Source file: 19550331.jpg.

Machine transcript — unreviewed

Steadone Sow~on-the-Wild Wotctings” a 190 @ acct he i age ag William J. Sands, ksq., "Myrtlefield", Hillsborough Old Road, March 393i st, 1955. Lisburn. Dear Willy, SEAT CONTROLLED SWITCH. Many thanks for your good and interesting letter of March 21st, unavoidably held over until today. Of course, as you well know, the trouble with all these electrical things is trouble. The most troublesome part of all modern cars is electrical fittings, and whilst we are doing our best to make vehicles safe, as a first consideration, we are also trying to eliminate some of the electrical gadgets despite the fact of what I mentioned to you about a seat-controlled switch. Thank you, very, very much, however, for all you say which I am carefully considering. We have covered the difficulty in the hydraulic transmission of the danger of "creep" but it is too involved to bother you with by letter. AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, Here, again, your remarks are very good. i Just couldn't help laughing when you referred to the old "Model ji I had forgotten all about "creep" on that vehicle. What a wonderful old car it was for its day. If we can make something as good in the chassis development, for all sizes of vehicles, in ths day then, indeed, we shall have done a great job. I do do believe we shall achieve this. My recollection is that the "Model T" chassis was