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).
Cold starting issues related to ignition, carburettor, and gearbox drag.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168a\3\ img190 | |
| Date | 1st February 1935 | |
| -2- MCS/VL.{V. Lewis / Mr Valentine}2.35. "be permanently engaged and to have the coil "ignition as a reserve. "I have received complaints of poor starting up "from cold, this was due to incorrect setting of "the controls - the drivers now make a practice "of flooding the carburetter and lighting the low "speed jet. "There is a lot of drag in the gear boxes which "does not assist starting". Sgd. Vaughan Lewis. | ||