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Customer complaints about popping and explosions in the New Phantom exhaust.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 1\3\  B001_X 93-page49
Date  11th May 1926
  
Handwritten: HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
Handwritten: X93

To R. {Sir Henry Royce} from BJ.
Copy to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
Copy to EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}
Copy to PN. {Mr Northey}
Copy to CWB.

Popping and Explosions in Exhaust.
New Phantom(Codename for PHANTOM I).

We are still distressed in regard to popping in the exhaust.

I asked CWB to look into the question and attach a copy of CWB3/PD10/5/26.

We are hoping that some method will be adopted to prevent this very irritating trouble which is causing a good deal of complaint amongst our customers and which they do not expect in a car for which they are paying £3,000.

BJ.

Attached: Copy of CWB3/PD10/5/26
  
  
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).


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