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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
  
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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.
  
  


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