Inquiring about starting troubles, comparing the ease of starting American cars like Packard without warming up, in relation to automatic carburettors.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 122\4\ scan0076 | |
| Date | 1st May 1935 | |
| X1036 To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Automatic Carburetters. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 10/E1.5.35 Copy to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} E.BY.CX. {Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager} Referring to E.3/HP.25.4.35 I should be glad if you would let me know what sort of troubles have been experienced as indicated in the first paragraph of E's memo. I am repeatedly having mentioned to me the fact that on these American cars you need only do something very simple in the way of starting and then drive straight off without any preliminary warming up. Captain Bowman of the Car Mart, who lives almost next door to Leonard Williams of Packard's, was telling me the other day that the latter always does this on his Packard, i.e. gets in the driving seat, starts and drives straight off without any hesitation or difficulty. Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||
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).