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).
Letter from Oliver Lodge to A.E. Hives requesting a prolonged test on a high-grade motor spirit.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 79\1\ scan0243 | |
| Date | 22th January 1921 | |
| "LODGE, NORMANTON, AMESBURY." TELEGRAMS: STATION: AMESBURY. X601 Reply HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} NORMANTON, LAKE, SALISBURY. 22. Jany 1921 A E Hives Esq My dear Sir On 28 Nov. last I wrote to you about a continued test of some high grade patented motor spirit. I was told you were in America, possibly you are back now, so I venture to repeat the enquiry & whether you would kindly test it for me as you did before, but this time with a larger quantity so as to allow a prolonged test on a small engine. (for cleanliness &c as well as other things). Yours faithfully Oliver Lodge The stuff is at the University Birmingham. I shall have to furnish particulars to enable you to get it, if it is sometimes held up. | ||