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).
The investigation of a seized exhaust cut-out and a battery box failure.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 11\3\ 03-page043 | |
| Date | 20th April 1930 | |
| To: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} From G.W.H. Hôtel de France Châteauroux X7941 We have held the car up to day to investigate the seizure of the exhaust cut out. We dismantled the silencer and the unit of the cut out, and found that the spindle of the cut out had seized in the bronze bushes, we had to cut away the rivets, and drill out the rivets holding the butterfly valve before we could withdraw the spindle. The bronze bushes had apparently grown, as they were tight in the housings and had become less in did than the spindle, the spindle was not torn or dragged, its simply a case of more initial clearance wanted. The apparance of the bushes show they have been very hot. We have also had a failure of the battery box. The rear flange that is held by the cross member has broken right away from the box, we have rivitted a new angle piece on the box. We had this failure on either 18-EX or 22-EX I am not quite sure which, but its seems to be a weakness of the battery box. G.W.H. | ||