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).
The unsatisfactory testing of a Partridge grease gun and lubricators.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\5\ Scan157 | |
| Date | 8th March 1923 | |
| ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X3898 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/LG8.3.23. PARTRIDGE GREASE GUN. Referring to your Roy{Sir Henry Royce}/GEAL/FJ17.2.23. We have tested these lubricators and do not find them as satisfactory as the present guns we are using. The connection on to the greasegun is also not so convenient and leaks. We return herewith the Gun and Lubricators. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||