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).
Repeated failure of a Delco part and the plan for replacement and investigation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 108\1\ scan0353 | |
| Date | 15th August 1938 | |
| Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/IMW{Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} (Chateauroux). 600a Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} absent. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry{Shadwell Grylls}4/R.15.8.38. With regard to Rose's telephone call that the Delco had again failed, we are sending off a third Delco to keep you running while we make the necessary drive spindle so that you can change over to a Rolls-Royce distributor; to fit this latter will mean removing the lower half. We do not understand why the Delco's are failing, but are going to try to reproduce the trouble on the test bed. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||