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Letter from Price's Lubricants Limited discussing the viscosity figures and properties of Motorine M and Motorine E oils.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 144\1\ scan0281 | |
| Date | 9th February 1938 | |
| DIRECTORS :- J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} W. G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} BROOKER. R.{Sir Henry Royce} W. KNIGHT. G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} MASSINGHAM. All communications to be addressed to the Company. TELEGRAPHIC ADDRESSES INLAND: BELMONT, BATT, LONDON. FOREIGN & COLONIAL: BELMONT, LONDON. CODES A.B.C. (5TH & 6TH EDITIONS) BENTLEYS, COMPLETE PHRASE. BENTLEYS, SECOND PHRASE. TELEPHONE, BATTERSEA 2000. (PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE) RAILWAY STATION (PASSENGER) CLAPHAM JUNCTION. ALL QUOTATIONS SUBJECT TO ALTERATION WITHOUT NOTICE AND WITHOUT ENGAGEMENT. [Handwritten Note]: 122/1 [Logo]: SHIP BRAND Price's Lubricants Limited. Belmont Works Battersea, London. S.W.11. JWGB/VHG IN YOUR REPLY PLEASE QUOTE T.D. 9th February, 1938 Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd. DERBY. FOR THE ATTENTION OF MR. ROWBOTHAM. Dear Sirs, Following up the writer's recent visit to your Works, and his meeting with Mr. Rowbotham, we have pleasure in giving you as promised a complete range of viscosity figures for Motorine M and Motorine E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} These oils are prepared on modern lines, but care has been taken to preserve the highly lubricating properties of Motorines primarily by the inclusion of a proportion of fatty oil, a constituent which has been characteristic of Motorines from the time they were first produced more than 40 years ago. By general consent the particular type of fatty oil which we use is acknowledged as a valuable constituent, particularly from the point of view of operation under exacting conditions. The mineral constituents of Motorine E ensure clean working, the maintenance of the requisite body at high temperature and reasonable ease of starting from cold. In producing these two oils on modern lines we have taken particular pains to ensure a continuance of the highly lubricating properties of Motorines in the past, whilst giving cleaner working and easier starting than was formerly obtainable. It was arranged that the writer should see Major Cox with a view to furnishing to Conduit Street a supply of Motorine M for practical test in Phantom III engines. Major Cox has been good enough to agree to try Motorine M in his own car, and at the end of last (Contd.) | ||