From the Experimental Department regarding buffer clearance and a stiff gear lever on a 20HP car.
| Identifier | Morton\M2.6\ img004 | |
| Date | 4th June 1925 | |
| +5840 R Expl: Dept: Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., Derby. Angleterre. 4th. June 1925. Hotel de France, Chateauroux(French test region), Indre, France. Mr. Hancock from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 20 HP. Will you please let us know the buffer clearance on 9-G-111. when loaded to the normal. We should like on that car for you to carry ballast equivalent to two passengers at the back. As regards the change speed lever not sliding freely, we should like you to look into this and try and find the reason. Has it got worse? I did not notice it was particularly stiff when we had it at WW. You may find that the change speed lever is rubbing against the frame ar at least the aluminium support off the gearbox comes very close to the frame. We sent Lytton and Frost off yesterday with the rods for 93-NK. We are trying to rush 98-NK car through so that we can change this for 93-NK car. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||
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).