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).
Unauthorized special fittings for petrol tank air vent pipes being added to demonstration cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 18\4\ Scan074 | |
| Date | 1st September 1933 | |
| Ho/Lid{A. J. Lidsey} x9650 S/W. Ltr...from FN. Copy to G.H. AH. By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Hy{Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} FN.3/WTL.9.33. INDEPENDENT AIR VENT PIPES. PETROL TANK. With regard to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid{A. J. Lidsey}/1/KT.11.9.33 I cannot understand how special fittings of this nature have been sent to London and fitted to two of our demonstration cars without at least going through the usual routine of being standardised, or approved. I had no communication concerning these, and I understand a memo D/BF/HDG/G.11.8.33 was sent to Lillie Hall in respect of this. It would appear that certain officials seem to think that any sort of oddment of an unauthorised nature can be added to our important demonstration cars as if they were Christmas trees. FN. | ||