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).
Intermittent electrical and suspension faults on a car, and a suggested modification for lubrication.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 47\3\ Scan123 | |
| Date | 6th July 1931 guessed | |
| -2- It is to be noted that on Friday last the field-fuse on this car again blew whilst the owner was driving from Ascot, when he, I am informed, wrote to you for a further supply of fuses; the fault of course is obviously more difficult to place by reason of its being intermittent. I understand that the owner of this car proposes to drive it to you on Thursday next, so that it will be in your hands first thing on Friday morning. You will then have an opportunity of deciding once and for all which of these various possibilities of trouble arising accounts for the complaint. This car also has an intermittently squawking valve which is very irritating, and with regard to the springing control there is no doubt that there is altogether too much up-and-down movement experienced by passengers at the rear. I would be glad if Mx. {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} and Hd. {Mr Hayward / Mr Huddy} would look into this last matter also, to see whether the trouble is contributed to by undue freeness of the cushion springs, because no amount of damping we can supply is fully effective if the springs of the cushions are able to throw passengers about unduly. A point suggested by this owner which occurs to me as being a very good one, is that instead of the plug designated "U" on page 121 of Instruction Book No. IX providing that the spline can be fed with oil from an oil-gun at every 1,000 miles or fortnightly, he proposes that an ordinary [strikethrough] Enots fittings such as at "S" in the Universal joint should take the place of the plug. In this way a few drops of oil can be forced in by the oil-gun in any position of the shaft, whereas at present it is apparently a somewhat arduous job to make sure that the shaft is upright (i.e. the plug) and then only after the floorboards have been removed, whereas by the other method suggested the oil-gun can be supplied from beneath in almost any position of the shaft. PN. {Mr Northey} | ||