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).
Test of a special throttle ball bearing to prevent silencer explosions in Phantom cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 1\3\ B001_X 93-page88 | |
| Date | 20th October 1926 | |
| Y93 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from BJ. Copy to wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Copy to EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} Copy to PN.{Mr Northey} Copy to CWB Copy to H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} Copy to HJH. Explosions in Silencer, BJ7/E20/10/26 I was glad to have an opportunity of trying the two cars at Derby yesterday, one of which was a sample of our present standard Phantom, which has bad explosions in the silencer, and the other an example of your experimental car in which there is a special ball bearing in the throttle which prevents explosions and on which we could obtain very few explosions. I understand that you can arrange to fit this ball bearing in cases of complaints and that you will fit it to the first car we tried to see whether it overcomes the explosions. If this is successful, mks please kindly ascertain how soon we could make it standard, as this is extremely important. BJ. | ||