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Letter discussing a customer's positive experience with a new carburettor fitted to a Phantom I (39-AL).


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 146\3\  scan0249
Date  16th December 1936
  
Swell. CTS {C. Trot Salt - Carburation}

To: "Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} ",
DERBY.

PARIS
Sr22/Dn.16.12.36

Dear "Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} ",

One of our customers - Mr Hermann Kron - who owns a Phantom I (39-AL) dragged me out to show me a carburettor he has had fitted to his car, and insisted that I should try the car, so that I could tell him what my opinion of it was.

I succeeded in convincing this gentleman that it would be better for his chauffeur to drive the car, as I am now quite incapable of changing gears well on this type of car, since I had become accustomed to drive Bentleys and Phantom IIIs/

This carburettor certainly seems to assist the car on slow-running and getting away quickly.

Kronn himself says it is amazing, and asserts that his car now goes up hills like a "téléférique:"

I am enclosing for your information the description of this device.

h. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints}
  
  
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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