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 providing advice on protecting a car from very cold weather conditions.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 59\1\ Scan054 | |
| Date | 1st December 1938 | |
| PN.{Mr Northey}1/WT11232 1st December 1938. Sir Norman Watson, Bt.{Capt. J. S. Burt - Engineer} Sulhamstead House, Nr. Reading. Berks. Sir, With reference to your recent visit here and our conversation regarding the very wintry conditions under which you will propose at times to use your Continental Rolls-Royce car, the following notes may be of assistance to you as it would appear that you may be leaving your car only partially protected from the weather in a shed at a high altitude and very low temperature for possibly three days at a time. I think your first effort should be to prevent the engine and its lubricating oil falling to such a low temperature. When I suggested to you the use of one of the radiator bonnet paraffin heaters you objected that they only lasted for say twenty-four hours, but I see that there is advertised by the Speedwell Gear Case Co. Ltd. of 95, Pimlico Rd, London. S. W. 1, a lamp which is described as a Universal Radiator Lamp, burning ordinary paraffin which will go on burning for seven days. The height of this lamp is 8 3/4" over all, and greatest width 5". The price is 8/6d. I am enclosing the advertisement cut from the current issue of the "Motor". I think it would be worth your while to | ||