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).
Customer complaints of misfiring and sparking plug issues in Bentley cars due to the use of Ethyl lead fuel.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 150\1\ scan0282 | |
| Date | 6th February 1937 | |
| S/W {Sales / Derby Works} Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} ..from C. 1292 WST C6/C6.2.37 Ethyl LEAD FUEL IN BENTLEY CARS. ----------- With reference to C8/C29.1.37, my memo. was not quite completed. I had intended to refer to another remark in your memo. namely that there were only a few people affected. K. {Mr Kilner} during January attended to 12 cases of misfiring due to the use of Ethyl, as follows:- B.192.AH. Mann. B. 84.BN. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} Cobbold. B.32.FB. - B.145.DK. Hardie. B. 68.DG. Higgs. B. 43.EJ. Turner. B. 18.BN. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} Grey. B. 33.GP. Lane. B. 35.HM. {Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} Newall. B. 34.GA. Dodds.!! B. 9.HM. {Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} Kerman. B. 61.HM. {Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} Blackwell. We have also looked through some Inspection Reports for January, and we find that sparking plug trouble was reported with:- B.175.CW. Withy. B.75.GP. Forwood. B. 7.BN. {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} Jardine. B.139.AE. Adeney. B.66.GA. Ford. B.196.AH. Trehearne Thomas. B.166.EF. Ainslie. B.62.DG. Mackay. B.10.DG. Thompson. In addition, of course, we had a very large number of complaints regarding Rolls-Royce cars after our recommendation of Ethyl - in fact Cricklewood one morning had six cars there at the same time for the same trouble. So that you can imagine how it gets round among drivers. C. | ||