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).
Requesting a car with an over-oiling Phantom engine for a two-day test of a new corrective scheme.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 72\1\ scan0140 | |
| Date | 1st March 1928 | |
| To Hm.{Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} X8980 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/LG8. 3. 28. X417 PHANTOM OVER-OILING. We have been testing out a scheme which we had hoped might prove more permanent and less expensive method of correcting over-oiling on the Phantom engines. It would help us considerably if at the first opportunity you could let us have for 2 days, a car which is suffering from this complaint. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||