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 requesting assistance for an apprenticeship and advice on a car's gearbox noise.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\1\ scan0274 | |
| Date | 13th February 1940 | |
| Telephone: 200 Connah's Quay Telegrams: Summers, Chester. 261a Shotton, Chester. 13th February 1940. Dear Bill, I understand that there is a certain Colonel Kenwrick-Cox who is making application for his son to be taken on at Derby as an unpaid apprentice. The said Colonel is billeted with a friend of mine, who seems to think that I have enormous influence with Derby. You, of course, know that this is not true. Nevertheless, is there anything that you could do, or anybody to whom I could write in order to assist in this matter? When I put the clutch out on my motor car it makes a sizzling noise. Can you tell me what this is likely to be, and how to mend it? I believe that Gills is the proud, and probably satisfied, owner of a Ten h.p. Talbot. If so, he will probably have noticed the irritating sizzling noise in the gear box. Talbots tell me that this is insuperable, as the gear box is so much inside the motor car. I do not believe this, and I am wondering whether you would confirm that I am right and they are wrong, my own view being that it is due to bad gear cutting. Yours, Richard W.A. Robotham Esq. | ||