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Complaints about the straight petrol funnel design for the 20-HP chassis and requesting a horizontal version.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 2\6\  B002_X 140 141 157-page234
Date  24th October 1923
  
c. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
X157
EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} /Thn16/H24.10.23.

Petrol Funnel. 20-HP Chassis.

We have had several complaints from our own people and from the visiting engineer inspectors with regard to the petrol funnels supplied with the 20-HP chassis.

They point out that with the petrol filler pointing outwards and the petrol funnel being of the straight type, that the mouth of the funnel is actually on a very big slope, and does not permit of petrol being poured freely into it.

They ask whether a petrol funnel can be made, the mouth of which will be horizontal when the petrol is poured into it.

No doubt you will give this matter your consideration.

EP {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer} /Thn.
  
  
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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