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 discussing a clutch noise issue and a potential new car purchase.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\1\ scan0277 | |
| Date | 19th February 1940 | |
| Telephone:- 200 Connah's Quay Telegrams:- Summers, Chester. 261a Shotton, Chester. 19th February 1940. Dear Bill, Thank you for your letter of the 15th. I rather suspected that the noise emanating from my clutch was a thrust race, but I was somewhat at a loss to understand why it should develop quite suddenly over-night. I had had it examined to see whether it was being lubricated, and was assured that it was. We did not look for brass and steel particles, but no doubt this could be done. If I require a new thrust race I suppose I shall have to write to London for it. With regard to your queries as to whether I should be:- (a) Interested in, and (b) Able to afford, one of your new motor cars, the answer to (b) of course is definitely "No". The answer to (a) depends on whether or not the new motor car is an improvement on the present one, and whether it has sufficient appeal to me to make the answer to (a) become "Yes", in spite of the answer to (b) being "No". In other words, one cannot express one's interest in a pig in a poke. Might I suggest that you use your great influence with the Administration to persuade them that it would be in their best interests to let me have a car for a few days in order to find out in what | ||