Letter to Lodge Plugs Ltd. reporting a failed X434/1 sparking plug during a test on a Bentley chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 162\6\ img238 | |
| Date | 8th January 1934 | |
| VH4256 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.1/MA. 8th January, 1934. Messrs.Lodge Plugs, Ltd., Rugby. For the attention of Mr.Bernard Hopps. Dear Sir, We regret to inform you that one of the special X434/1 sparking plugs sent to us for test broke down electrically after only 114 miles running on the Bentley chassis. The other plugs in the engine are quite satisfactory and are continuing the test. No doubt you will want to examine this plug and let us have a report, so we are returning it to you under separate cover for your examination. Yours faithfully, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||
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).