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).
Departmental memo discussing carburettor water circulation, mascot appeal, and aluminium footboards for overseas markets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 78\2\ scan0092 | |
| Date | 22th May 1912 | |
| (100 H) (X 967. 22.5.12) E.P. 1898. ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED, NIGHTINGALE ROAD, DERBY. TELEGRAMS: "ROYCAR," DERBY. TELEPHONES: 813 (Two Lines). DEPARTMENTAL MEMO. This column is for Name of Person addressed. DATE. -2- Note. We must fit a tap to entirely stop the circulation of water to the carburettor, if required in the hot weather. If we do not fit a tap, as I suggest, to all our cars out here, customers will start fitting taps themselves. Naturally they will not make such a good job of it as we should do. I understand that Mysore wants taps fitting on their cars. Makers of all other cars out here have found it essential to fit taps to their water circulation if their carburettors are heated with hot water. There are two points I should like an answer to, namely :- (1) What is the objection (if any) of fitting a tap as I suggest. ? (2) Have the Works found a point as regards the heat of the carburettor where they get the best results. ? 3. R.R. MASCOTS. The R.R.Mascots fitted on the radiator caps attract a good deal of attention. The natives out here like anything out of the common, and the more showy a car is the better they like it. 4. ALUMINIUM TREADS. Side footboards out in this country should be covered with aluminium instead of rubber. Aluminium lasts much longer, and always looks neat. Rubber soon wears, and looks shabby. (Contd). This sheet must be filed with the correspondence to which it refers. | ||