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 to Rover regarding fuel consumption and rear tyre mileage on the 12 HP model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 127\3\ scan0218 | |
| Date | 14th May 1938 | |
| 1091/ Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/R.{Sir Henry Royce} 14th May, 1938. M.{Mr Moon / Mr Moore} Wilks, Esq., The Rover Company Ltd., New Meteor Works, C O V E N T R Y. Dear Wilks, Having been prodded into activity on the matter of fuel consumption by Mr. Taub's provocative paper, we are somewhat surprised to find that we are not as impotent and deponent as we thought after listening to his discourse. In other words, we have failed to improve upon our present part throttle consumptions appreciably without producing other and undesirable results. We suggest it might be to our mutual advantage if we had a talk round some of the figures. There are also various other interesting things we have been discovering. Would it be convenient if I came over about Tuesday, May 17th, arriving about 1.0'clock? The little 12 H.P. is going very well, but it still seems impossible to get 5,000 miles out of a pair of rear tyres. Yours sincerely, | ||