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 to C.H. Brooks of The Light Production Co., Ltd. regarding serious piston failures on a customer's car and a Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\3\ scan0227 | |
| Date | 28th May 1937 | |
| 1256 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}16/R.{Sir Henry Royce} 28th May, 1937. C.H. Brooks, Esq., The Light Production Co.,Ltd., 60/66, Rochester Row, Westminster, S.W.1. Dear Mr. Brooks, We are alarmed because we have had a piston failure on a customer's car, and we have just found two pistons cracked on a Bentley which has completed 16,000 miles in France. These are the first piston failures we have had on Bentley endurance running for a very long time. We regard the fact of a piston failure on a customer's car as extremely serious, and we should be glad if you could come up to the Works, and discuss this matter on Monday or Tuesday next week. Yours sincerely, | ||