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 from a customer detailing a car breakdown and subsequent troubleshooting.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 174\2\ img314 | |
Date | 18th January 1939 guessed | |
B. S. Cunningham Greens Farms, Conn. Telephone, Fairfield, Conn-140 as I will have a nurse and two kids and wife with me. I read the book "The Magic of a Name," and was most interested. Hope I get a chance to visit the Derby works this time. I guess I could stop there on my way to Scotland, and leave the Bentley for a check up. I had a funny thing happen last November. I was running happily along at about 50 m.p.h. when suddenly the motor simply died, as if it had run out of gas. I stopped and checked things as best I could, but couldn't find anything wrong. Got back in the car and started off perfectly O.K. Got going about 50 again and the motor did it again. Stopped and took all gas line connections apart, looking for dirt or something. Nothing wrong at all. I was in a hurry to get to a football | ||