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).
Query regarding a seized make and break lever and oily/carbon coated points from a 20/25 HP chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\1\ scan0164 | |
| Date | 23th May 1933 | |
| 86118 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. BY.1/G.23.5.33. ---------------- 20/25 HP. CHASSIS - MAKE & BREAK LEVERS. RE: CONTACT FACES. ------------------------------------------------------ Herewith please find contact breaker lever and points off a customer's car. The symptoms appear to indicate that the points have been oily or carbon coated as normal condition, but the lever itself was seized up on its pin. I would like your views as to this failure. WST BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||