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 supplier regarding pump trouble, specifically buzzing due to bent blades on 30 HP cars.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149\1\ scan0332 | |
| Date | 29th September 1936 | |
| STATION: ADDERLEY PARK, L.M.& S. RY S.U. CARBURETTER FLEXIBLE SILENT TELEPHONE No. EAST 1171 (6 LINES) General Manager: T. C. SKINNER. THE S.U. COMPANY. PROPRIETORS: MORRIS INDUSTRIES LTD East Works, Bordesley Green Road, Adderley Park-Birmingham, 8. TELEGRAMS: FLEXCARBUR, BIRMINGHAM. Your Ref. Our Ref. TCS/R/NK. 29th September 1936. J.B. Dixon Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., D E R B Y. Dear Mr. Dixon, We had in yesterday one of your new 30 h.p. cars with pump trouble, namely buzzing, due to your people bending up the blades of the spring. Cannot you get this practice stopped, as in the first place it is bound to cause trouble, and it is hardly fair on us that we should have to stand the expense of the guarantee in these cases where the fault is not our own. We have had quite a number of pumps returned to us, and the chief trouble so far as we can find out has been due to these blades being bent up. Yours sincerely, [Signature] | ||