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).
Circular letter from the Vacuum Oil Company announcing an improvement to Mobiloil B for better performance in cold weather.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 144\1\ scan0015 | |
| Date | 24th August 1911 | |
| TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESS VACUUM - LONDON NATIONAL TELEPHONE 6840 GERRARD Vacuum Oil Company, Limited AUTOMOBILE LUBRICANTS DEPARTMENT. CAXTON HOUSE, WESTMINSTER, S.W. MANUFACTURING PLANTS. MILLWALL, LONDON. PURFLEET, ESSEX. WEST FLOAT, BIRKENHEAD. BRANCH OFFICES ABERDEEN 194 MARKET STREET TELEPHONE NAT. 1242 TELEGRAMS VACUUM BELFAST 67 HIGH STREET TELEPHONE NAT. 1753 TELEGRAMS VACUUM BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL HOUSE, NEW STREET TELEPHONE NAT. 3341 TELEGRAMS VACUUMPAN CARDIFF MERCHANTS EXCHANGE, DOCKS. TELEPHONE NAT. 3144. TELEGRAMS VACUUMPAN DUBLIN 16 WESTMORELAND STREET TELEPHONE NAT. 839. TELEGRAMS WORDIES-DUBLIN. DUNDEE 6 & 8 ALLAN STREET TELEPHONE NAT. 255 TELEGRAMS VACUUM GLASGOW 45 HOPE STREET TELEPHONES { NAT. 1008 ARGYLE CORPORATION 2453 TELEGRAMS VACUUM HULL COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS 9 SCALE LANE TELEPHONE NAT. 219 TELEGRAMS VACUUM LIVERPOOL 5, RUMFORD PLACE. TELEPHONES { NAT. 6981 CENTRAL NAT. 6983 CENTRAL TELEGRAMS VACUUM MANCHESTER 196 DEANSGATE TELEPHONES { NAT. 2882 CENTRAL NAT. 2883 " TELEGRAMS VACUUM NEWCASTLE ON TYNE MILBURN HOUSE, DEAN STREET TELEPHONE NAT. 1553 TELEGRAMS VACUUM SHEFFIELD INDEPENDENT BUILDINGS FARGATE TELEPHONE NAT. 3675 TELEGRAMS VACUUM WEST HARTLEPOOL 1 CHURCH STREET TELEPHONE 171 NAT. TELEGRAMS VACUUM SOLE MARKETERS FOR VACUUM OIL COMPANY ROCHESTER, U.S.A. REFINERIES ROCHESTER, U.S.A. OLEAN, U.S.A. [Handwritten Notes & Stamps] IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO [Stamp: 6 SEP 1911] W. Barraclough AEN. Does this interest you? [Stamp: RECEIVED] [Stamp: August 24th, 1911 T.P.R.] [Handwritten on left margin: X967] SUBJECT To Agents for VACUUM MOBILOIL. Dear Sirs, We write to advise you of a change we have made in Vacuum Mobiloil B, which has always been our most important brand of oil for the lubrication of all air-cooled engines, and also for water-cooled engines where an oil thicker than Mobiloil A is required. We have had several complaints, especially during the cold weather, that Mobiloil B flows very sluggishly, and on this account is difficult to handle, and there has always been some fear that when engines are started up first on a cold morning they would have to run some time before the oil could flow freely enough to give full lubrication, and in the case of motor-cycle engines, especially where the pipe from the oil tank to the engine has several coils, it is very difficult to force it by the hand pump provided. The change we have made in Mobiloil B has improved this condition. It will now pour quite freely even in cold weather, but at the same time it retains its high efficiency under severe heat conditions as formerly. These characteristics are bound to bring for this oil a very large number of users who could not use it owing to the difficulties mentioned above. We have made additions and improvements to our Motor-cycle Oils generally of late, until at the present time we have a perfect set of oils which covers the whole field of motor-cycle requirements. We have interested many of the builders of motor-cycles, and proved to them that our oils are superior to anything else on the market, and as a result we have at the present time the business and recommendation of such well-known firms as the Clyno, F.N., J.A.P., Matchless, N.S.U., Precision, Singer, Triumph, Trump, and some others whose names we are not at the present time authorized to mention. [P.T.O.] | ||