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Letter from a customer requesting various spare parts and advice on a repair.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 89\4\  scan0253
Date  2nd February 1938 guessed
  
BRAMSHOTT OLD MILL,
NEAR LIPHOOK,
HAMPSHIRE.

2.

Can you have a new one sent to me. I think that I can fit it myself.

The studs for holding the main exhaust manifold to the cylinder head are breaking away. I can machine up some myself quite easily. Do you think ordinary mild steel good enough for the job or ought I to use material of better quality.

Would you be kind enough to ask your Service to send me the following:

1. 1/4 BSF single ended spanner
1. 3/8 BSF " "
1. Washer for radiator filler cap
2. Aluminium washers for universal joint (prop. shaft) level plugs.
1. B.A. castellated nut for magneto drive spider.

I hope you won't think that I am being a nuisance in asking you to do this.

I am
  
  
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).


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