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).
Requesting two 5-gallon drums of Wakefields XXL oil for testing as an alternative to the standard gearbox oil.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 144\1\ scan0197 | |
| Date | 23th October 1931 | |
| r967. To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}6/KT.23.10.31. x1583, ALTERNATIVE GEARBOX OIL. Will you please obtain from Wakefields two 5 galls. drums of XXL oil for test purposes. We wish to test this with the possible object of using it as standard as an alternative to Prices' Amber A.{Mr Adams} Under the circumstances we should not expect there will be any charge for it. XXL. Oil has been submitted to 'Paris' by Wakefields' Paris representative as a possible alternative to Prices Amber A.{Mr Adams} We have not previously tried it. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||