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 The Bristol Aeroplane Company regarding car maintenance and performance.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\2\ scan0139 | |
| Date | 20th November 1935 | |
| x261 b. LONDON OFFICE:- BUSH HOUSE, ALDWYCH, W. C. 2. TELEGRAMS:- INLAND: AVIATION PHONE FILTON. FOREIGN: AVIATION FILTON. CODES:- WESTERN UNION. BENTLEY'S & A.B.C. "Bristol" Aeroplanes and Aero Engines THE BRISTOL AEROPLANE COMPANY LTD (SBAC Logo - SOCIETY OF BRITISH AIRCRAFT CONSTRUCTORS) TELEPHONE: TEMPLE BAR 7193. TELEGRAMS: "BRISTAIRCO, BUSH LONDON" TELEPHONES: OFFICES AND WORKS, 45051 [PRIVATE BRANCH EXCHANGE] SIR G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} STANLEY WHITE, BT{Capt. J. S. Burt - Engineer} (MANAGING DIRECTOR.) FILTON HOUSE, BRISTOL, ENG. Your Ref. Our Ref. ENGINES F/HCM-6. 20th November 1935. W.A.Robotham Esq, Messrs Rolls-Royce Ltd, Derby. My dear Robotham, Many thanks for your letter of the 18th instant. It is very nice of you to write me about my clutch, and I expect your diagnosis is correct. The point is, that the clutch is functioning quite satisfactorily at the present time, and as I am using the car a great deal, I would like to go on as long as I can, until say the middle or end of January, when I shall have to lay the car up for the bodywork. As you have not been worried by me, I presume you have assumed that the car has been going well, which assumption is quite correct. I have now done 28,000 miles, including a fairly arduous 2500 miles in the Austrian Alps this Summer. Since you dealt with the brakes, I have had no trouble whatsoever on this score, and my only complaints have been clutch, automatic cut out, and a good deal of cracking in the body. I have arranged to send the car up to Park Wards about the end of January. Have you got any further suggestions in regard to improving the performance of the car a bit, and, if so, what would it cost me, and do you recommend it? If you have got anything attractive to suggest, I might send the car up to have the clutch done, after sending it to Park Wards. With kind regards, and best thanks. Yours sincerely, A.H.R.Fedden A.H.R.Fedden. | ||