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Customer complaint about a flywheel striking the road on a new car.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 8\4\  04-page050
Date  31th July 1912
  
Complaint

Sexton.
Flanchard,
Hi: Reigate.

Sirs, July 31st 1912

am just back from a tour in Scotland
my new Rolls Royce car No 1872 x
most pleased with car except in one
respect which was disturbing.
The fly wheel shrieked
at times struck the
road when going
over bridges, fortunately
nothing worse than a
grinding scrape each time.

Stamps:
SUTTON REIGATE, AUG 1 12, 1S
AUG 1912
  
  
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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