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).
Car overheating issues, referencing customer feedback and experiments with square tubed Gallay radiators.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 24\5\ Scan348 | |
| Date | 13th October 1930 | |
| Handwritten notes: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}, D1456, X766., X766, X7-2-0. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re Overheating. Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}11/E13.10.30 Copy to Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} I have been reading with interest Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/MJ.7.10.30 relative to cars seen and tried by Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} in London and Paris. The information given re Gallay radiators is specially interesting to me in view of our own overheating troubles and experiments with square tubed radiators. It occurred to me that this was something which we ought to try. Would you please let me have your views and recommendations. I met Mr.Nicoll of Italy when I was in Paris and, whilst generally pleased with our latest cars, he expressed the view that it was really too ridiculous the way in which our cars overheated. I understand that we have had a mechanic down there struggling to improve matters but of course no real remedy has been provided. He went on to say that no other car that he knows of that is sold down there overheats under the perfectly normal conditions that our cars do. I mention this not because I think there is anything that we can do at the moment so far as Mr.Nicoll of Italy is concerned, but merely to show once again that what I have been saying for so long is quite correct, i.e. that our margin of safety is much too small. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||