Letter from Chateauroux, France, requesting parts for a car, detailing specific component failures.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 101\4\ scan0081 | |
| Date | 30th August 1935 | |
| F.J.Bowering <500 a HOTEL DE FRANCE. CHATEAUROUX(French test region). Indre. France. GWH {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} /RP/2/JAB. 30th August 1935. Please supply necessary parts Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} To. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} The Car was held up yesterday morning for attention to the Air Silencer flange rivets, Jackall Jacks union broken, Petrol Guage failure, and the fitting of the Six new Tyres. Thornhill has returned to England for his holidays. The N.S. front junction box union which runs to the O.S. lock of the Jackall Jacks, has broken off. This apparently is a one piece job. We shall be pleased if you could arrange to have another sent out. I am enclosing a sketch showing breakage. file. New parts to be obtained 2/9/35 GWH {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} /R.Pattinson. RPattinson | ||
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).