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Letter on hotel letterhead reporting on a car's general running, cold starting, and shock damper performance.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 11\4\  04-page179
Date  28th January 1933
  
Hôtel Sylva Pergolèse
PARIS
3, Rue Pergolèse (XVIe)
Avenue de la {L. A. Archer} Grande-Armée --- Bois de Boulogne
Téléph.: Passy 38-12, Passy 25-54

87941.

28/1/33

19 Ex.

To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

The general running of the car has been good. Though the temperature at the time of starting has been -5°C I have not had to use the starter carb, the engine continuing to run after the 3rd attempt.

Weather permitting I shall take Mr Slater out tomorrow with the control on and he will then give you his opinion of the shock dampers.

There is one more run fixed for Mon noon so I do not expect I shall get to Chateauroux(French test region) before Tues. The N.S.R. Hartford damper developed a groan. I dismantled this & effected a cure.

I enclose my time sheets for this week.

A.B. Roberts
  
  
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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