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).
Unsatisfactory slipper drive on a New 20 HP Trials Saloon Chassis, GYK-10.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 58\1\ Scan116 | |
| Date | 26th November 1926 | |
| S/W. To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Copy to E.J. C. GWB. HP. X5950 PN{Mr Northey}1/EH.26.11.26. New 20 H.P. Trials Saloon Chassis - GYK-10. This is the car in which you drove to the station yesterday morning. As I have informed you, over the weekend the slipper drive so far failed to function that the engine, which I passed from the point of view of vibration six days ago, I failed to pass on Monday for Trials purposes. The car was being sent in to N. yesterday for attention to this. It appears inevitable that in spite of a chassis having been passed as satisfactory when leaving Derby a wait of only three or four weeks at the coachbuilders will entail this device being taken down again before the car is allowed to get into the owner's hands. This has also occurred twice recently with our Phantom Saloon 88-LC. The position in respect of this part is especially unsatisfactory, because in the hands of an owner this obviously must occur, and instead of complaining about it the owner goes on using the car because he thinks the trouble is what he must put up with in a Rolls-Royce, and his friends also get the same unhappy impression. I understand from you that the slipper on the car in question may be of the old type in which the lubrication was known to be ineffective although the car was quite recently put into service. This, of course, you will be able to find out from your records. Meanwhile, has any Depot order been given in respect of any modification of this part, which I understand from you is a simple one, involving merely the drilling of additional holes for lubrication ? The amount of work at present frequently involved by this slipper drive requiring attention must be the cause of considerable expense. PN.{Mr Northey} | ||