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).
Design challenges and solutions for a petrol gauge and filler on a luggage carrier.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 154\3\ scan0093 | |
| Date | 28th January 1920 | |
| X.3667 Extract from R1/G28.1.20. RE LUGGAGE CARRIER ETC. Petrol Gauge & Filler. X.3889 X.3667 It is in connection with such a luggage carrier that the difficulties arise with the filler and the petrol gauge which we mentioned in a recent letter. The filler is nearly completed and I think will be found simple and efficient, and I should be glad if you could put it in hand as soon as you receive the drawings. We have not finally fixed either the position or the angle of the nozzle, and have left you this so that you can try witha wooden model on several chassis to which various bodies are fitted, so as to get a universal position which we assumeshould in each country be on the pavement side, naturally next to the garage, so that in the case of an American hose it would not have to be taken w half way across the street. X.3888. We understand you are submitting an alternative fitting for the centre of the car fro the reserve quantity. This matter has had some attention from us, and Mr. Elliott will send a sketch of how far the matter has got. I hope you will think that the arrangement from we have suggested is simple and safe/leakage of air point of view, and worthy of the little extra trouble of fitting the small piece of sylphon tube instead of a gland. As we have schemed it appears impossible to damage it or for it to leak the air pressure, which is so very important, and it avoids a cock lubricated with petrol in a dirty place, which Contd. | ||