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 from Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd regarding the introduction of new motor oils and their use in vehicles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 145\3\ scan0264 | |
| Date | 7th September 1937 | |
| SHELL-MEX AND B.P. LTD Distributors for the Shell and Anglo-Iranian Oil Groups Telephone: Temple Bar 1234 Telegrams: Shellbeepee, Telex, London P.O. BOX. NO. 148 . SHELL-MEX HOUSE VICTORIA EMBANKMENT . LONDON . W.C.2 Your Reference .................... Our Department T & R.{Sir Henry Royce} LGC/LB. Date. 7th September 1937. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., DERBY. Dear Sirs, NEW SHELL MOTOR OILS. We shall be marketing our improved grades of Motor Oils co-incident with the Motor Show (October 14th) and we shall be grateful if you will give your consideration to the following points at your earliest convenience, so enabling us to revise our publicity and other descriptive matter in the next week or so. Briefly, we are marketing a complete new range of oils made by the solvent refining process, and although the grade names Single, Double, Triple, Golden Shell will remain, the oils will be of vastly improved characteristics, resembling their predecessors only in their relative viscosities. At the moment we have your approval, shown in your Instruction Books, for Single Shell for winter for Bentley and Rolls Royce, and AeroShell for summer, and we indicate these grades in the various lubrication charts and guides we publish. As, however, we propose abandoning the sale of AeroShell in future, replacing it with Triple Shell for cars and Golden Shell for motor cycles, queries may arise from owners of your cars who have been accustomed to using AeroShell. All offers subject to acceptance by return of post unless otherwise stated | ||