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 addressing issues with gauges, including bezel-less installation, blocked flexible tubes, and returned parts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61\3\ scan0120 | |
| Date | 7th October 1930 | |
| Messrs.Rolls-Royce,Ltd., Date 7.10.30. Page 2 existing bezel frame. We have received an enquiry for gauges without bezels, and we do not know what arrangements you have made for fixing this instrument in a panel. We therefore thought it opportune to make the suggestion that there might be sufficient room to lower the bend of flexible tube to project 1/8" as described above, and so entirely overcome the trouble. We have received back a certain number of gauges with bad tapers, and we are naturally replacing these at once. With regard to the parts returned under the numbers and dates given, the writer regrets that he was misinformed at the time of writing his former letter, and under these numbers and dates, two pump lines which were blocked had been received, but these had been rectified and returned, so that at the time we received your letter, so as to investigate the trouble, we wanted if possible another case, which we have since examined. We have come to the conclusion that the blocking of the line was due to the scale inside the very small flexible metal tube which we were then using. We have ourselves tried a larger tube, a sample of which was sent you as mentioned in our letter of the 11th inst., and we are particularly desirous | ||