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 Cadillac Motor Car Co. regarding an S.U. carburetter from a 6-litre Bentley and an inquiry about exhaust system materials.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 170\2\ img059 | |
| Date | 2nd April 1932 | |
| Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}5/AD. April 2nd, 1932. M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Olley Esq. Cadillac Motor Car Co. Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. Dear Oy, I am sending you today under separate cover an S.U. carburetter having 1¾" throttle diameter. This is off a 6-litre Bentley. You will observe that it has a throttle edge slow running device added to it. This is not very satisfactory in practice and we ourselves think that the carburetter functions best without any throttle edge slow running. I am getting a range of needles for this carburetter which I am also letting you have. I am asking our Shipping Office to invoice this carburetter to you at nominal figure and I hope that they will restrain their commercial spirit in so doing. I wonder whether you can tell me what steel is used in that exhaust system I have got. Our people still have the habit of specifying costly material such as Staybrite for insides of silencers and I feel that there will be no justification for it when we get the resonance type fitted up. Yours sincerely, | ||