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 Ethyl Export Corporation regarding a meeting with the Belgian Air Ministry about fuel specifications.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27a\4\ Scan239 | |
| Date | 6th October 1933 | |
| COPY. ETHYL EXPORT CORPORATION, ABFORD HOUSE, VICTORIA, LONDON, S.W.1. 6th October, 1933. Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd., 14-15, Conduit Street, W.1. Dear Sirs, For the attention of Lt.Col.L.F.R.Fell, D.S.O. The writer has just returned from his visit to Belgium and in company with your Mr. Golovine he had a meeting with Colonel Verelst and others interested in the question of fuel at the Belgian Air Ministry. The writer understands from Mr. Golovine that he is sending you a full report on the meeting and will therefore confine this letter to a statement that in his (the writer's) opinion the meeting was very satisfactory, and that the Belgian authorities verbally agreed that they would follow the new British Air Ministry's specification D.T.D.224 for their future fuel requirements and put this in force as soon as possible. We do not know how long this procedure will take but it would appear that they were in earnest. If the 224 specification is adopted it will certainly eliminate one cause of detonation and therefore it will be possible to pin this down more definitely if future trouble in this respect arises. Purely as a matter of personal opinion the writer considers that you may still suffer from this trouble because there is little doubt that the pilots often go through the "gate" when flying. Naturally this is rather a difficult thing to prove, but at least a standardised fuel eliminates one cause of trouble. We should be glad to render any further assistance possible in this matter should you so desire it. Yours truly, (Sgd) F.R. BANKS. | ||