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Letter to the Ethyl Gas Corporation regarding their work on overcoming the attack on exhaust valves by Ethyl.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\3\  img173
Date  7th May 1934
  
Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 31/KW.

7th May, 1934.

Mr. Heron(Experimental 6 CYL OHV 40/50 WITH PNEUMATIC F.W.B. air pump on camshaft, then Servo),
The Ethyl Gas Corporation,
Detroit, Michigan,
U.S.A.

Dear Mr. Heron(Experimental 6 CYL OHV 40/50 WITH PNEUMATIC F.W.B. air pump on camshaft, then Servo),

We were interested to hear from Mr. Robotham of the work you are doing to overcome one of our major problems - the attack on exhaust valves by Ethyl.

We should like to thanks you for the courtesy extended to Mr. Robotham by your Corporation.

Yours sincerely,
  
  
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).


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