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).
Modifications for carburetter water circulation, radiator mascots, and side footboard treads.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 1\7\ B001_X15 20 46 50 59-page100 | |
| Date | 17th August 1912 guessed | |
| -2- Note. We must fit a tap to entirely stop the circulation of water to the carburetter, if required in the hot weather. If we do not fit a tap, as I suggest, to all our cars out here, customers will start fitting taps themselves. Naturally they will not make such a good job of it as we should do. I understand that Mysore want taps fitting on their cars. Makers of all other cars out here have found it essential to fit taps to their water circulation if their carburetters are heated with hot water. There are two points I should like an answer to, namely:- (1) What is the objection (if any) of fitting a tap as I suggest.? (2) Have the works found a point as regards the heat of the carburetter where they get the best results.? 3. R.R. MASCOTS. The R.R. Mascots fitted on the radiator caps attract a good deal of attention. The natives out here like anything out of the common, and the more showy a car is the better they like it. 4. ALUMINIUM TREADS Side footboards out in this country should be covered with aluminium instead of rubber. Aluminium lasts much longer, and always looks neat. Rubber soon wears and looks shabby. (cont'd) | ||