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).
Ordering of recommended lubricants for Bentley cars, specifically concerning Prices oils.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 144\1\ scan0222 | |
| Date | 7th April 1934 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} From Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 967 Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/MJ.7.4.34. LUBRICANTS FOR BENTLEY CAR. Replying to Roy.{Sir Henry Royce}2/MG.5.4.34. It was I, and not Hancock, who altered the order of the list of oils recommended. We did not realise that Prices had a heritage from us that they should always be given preferential treatment, when we obtain from them the minimum amount of assistance. As no Experimental Bentley cars have been run on Prices oils at all, it was only a matter of curtesy that they were included in the list, we certainly were not justified in giving them any preferential treatment when we have not even run a car on their oil. If Prices have preference as regards the R.R. cars we think they have been very generously treated. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||