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).
Request to fit an auxiliary petrol pipe and pump to a Streamlined Saloon to prevent fuel starvation at Brooklands.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90\1\ Scan018 | |
| Date | 3rd November 1933 | |
| x 261 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}1/KT.3.11.33. STREAMLINED SALOON. Will you please fit an auxiliary petrol pipe line 5/16" diameter from the tank to the carburetter, and also an electrical petrol pump to this car. We do not want to remove any of the existing parts, but we shall want the auxiliary petrol pipe line fitting to ensure that there will be no petrol starvation at Brooklands. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||