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).
Outlining complaints regarding petrol pump failures on Bentley vehicles.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 106\2\ scan0228 | |
| Date | 28th August 1936 | |
| 25, RUE GIDE. LEVALLOIS-PERRET. Seine. France. To. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} From. G.W.H. COMPLAINTS. Bentleys. The Petrol Pump failures are getting beyond a joke, something drastic will have to be done. 1) Leaking. Thin diaphrams coming in broken up. New type diaphram loose on spindle. 2) Nuts loose holding units to valve body. 3) Noisy. 4) Operating arms nipping too tight on anchorage. -------------- G.W.H. | ||