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).
Informational pamphlet contrasting grease and grit, and introducing the 'DESMO FLEXI LUBRI COVER'.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 38\4\ Scan004 | |
| Date | 1st March 1927 guessed | |
| Grease or Grit Please File Y3494- Hitherto The problem of maintaining perfect lubrication of exposed moving parts of Motor Cars and Motor Cycles retaining grease and excluding grit has remained unsolved. Until NOW. Various means have been tried. Many have failed. A few came near to success—and then grit conquered— Until the advent of the “DESMO FLEXI LUBRI COVER.” Henceforward Grease Grease, the preservative, the mechanical essence of movement. . . Grit, the enemy of motion, the insidious wrecker that works in silence—unceasingly. DESMO Lubricator | ||