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 the procurement of 5 gallons of Lovejoy oil and a cost comparison for its use in shock absorbers.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 28\1\ Scan280 | |
| Date | 21th September 1931 | |
| Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}2/AD21.9.31. LOVEJOY OIL. Will you please obtain for us 5 galls. of Lovejoy oil. This is obtainable from Delco-Remy & Hyatt Ltd. 111, Grosvenor Rd. London, S.W.11. We should like to know what the cost of this special oil is compared with the cost of the compressor oil which we are at present using in the shock absorbers. If the cost is at all comparable we should prefer to use it as it has qualities which the compressor oil has not. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||