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).
Letter to The S.U. Company Ltd. regarding a petrol pump diaphragm and carburetter flooding issues on a Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 31\5\ Scan292 | |
| Date | 22th January 1935 | |
| X1487 T 20677 Exptl. Dept. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}16/KW. 22nd January, 1935. C.T. Skinner, Esq., The S.U. Company Ltd., East Works, Adderley Park, Birmingham 8. Dear Mr. Skinner, Here is the diaphragm from one of your Petrol Pumps which has just completed 16,000 miles running on the Continent. We are still getting complaints of the carburetters flooding on the Bentley, and should be glad to know what development work is going forward on the float mechanism with a view to obviating the trouble. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||