Departmental memo detailing customer feedback on weak parts, specifically fan blades and rear axle clearance issues.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 47\1\ Scan049 | |
| Date | 22th September 1921 | |
| X4117 AUTOMOBILES ROLLS-ROYCE (FRANCE) LIMITED TELEGRAMS: ROLLROYCE-PARIS RECEIVED 83, BOULEVARD GOUVION-SAINT-CYR PARIS (XVIIe) SHOWROOM, 102, Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Téléph. Elysées 10-92 OFFICES: 83, Boulevard Gouvion-Saint-Cyr GARAGE: STORES and REPAIRS: Téléph. Wag. 11-54, 10-81 DEPARTMENTAL MEMO This column is for Name of Person addressed Ha. Copy E.H. DATE P.s.3/Go 22.9.21 Re. Prince Koudacheff and his experience on Rolls Royce cars As you are no doubt aware Prince Koudacheff is the owner of 3 Rolls Royce cars and since the war has owned no less than 7, post-war and pre-war types. He has, now, just returned from a journey of 30.000 Kilometres in nearly every quarter of France and called yesterday to give us his experience of what he considers the weak parts of the Rolls Royce cars. On four occasions, on different Rolls Royce cars, he has broken fan blades and he openly declares that these are too weak and appear to require a support other than the present fixture. In making an extra quick turn in the road, in order to avoid an accident, the rear axle on chassis 38 AE, hit the side of the petrol tank where it is cut to receive the axle case. A similar instance happened on his other chassis I-PP which we have already reported, and we must, now, agree with the Prince's views that this part of the petrol tank is too weak, the rear axle case, in other words - there is no sufficient room to let the rear axle have the necessary side motion. We entirely agree with the fan blade trouble as we have had numerous cases over here and this has been the subject of special reports which we have sent you. It appears to us that you can strengthen up the fan blades or slightly alter the design without any trouble or detriment to the engine running of efficiency of the fan. P.T.O. This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||
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).