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 detailing a valve spring failure and subsequent breakdown during a journey from Buffalo.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\2\ img198 | |
| Date | 9th March 1934 guessed | |
| along the snow very peculiarly, I heard a sound that by now has become familiar that indicated that the sixth valve spring of the second set, or twelfth in all had failed. Since I have changed one every 200 miles since leaving Buffalo I was considering that I had about had enough when the car simultaneously decided it-too would like to go by train and dropped the valve in the cylinder. It being 8.P.M., by the time I got to this small town I found no rooms left in the only decent hotel; this place closely resembles the Dog & Duck only the beer is not so good. I think R.H.C. must have the gift of Clairvoyance as he only travelled by road from New York to Springfield. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||