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).
Sales letter from Rich & Bundy introducing their 'HOT-SPOT' electric vaporiser for engines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 31\3\ Scan044 | |
| Date | 16th July 1919 | |
| PATENT APPLIED FOR ELECTRIC HOT-SPOT VAPORISOR RICH & BUNDY, Partners { A.{Mr Adams} I. RICH. A.{Mr Adams} H.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} BUNDY. Telephone No. 168 TOTTENHAM. X1449 11a-13. NEW ROAD, PONDER'S END, N. 115-7. FORE STREET, UPPER EDMONTON, N. 18. Please reply to PONDER'S END' Ref. AIR/CB July. 16th 1919 Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd. Nightingale Road. Derby. Mr. Clark [STAMP: RECEIVED 17 JUL 1919] [STAMP: P] Dear Sirs. We beg to draw your attention to a device that we have recently perfected and are about to place on the market and which we believe will interest you. Our device is an electric vaporiser for fitting to petrol engines and other engines of a like nature, and its purpose is to enable the engine to be started very easily from COLD. It is perfectly well known among users that the engines of motor cars, lorries, aeroplanes, and motor boats are very difficult to start from cold especially in cold weather, and we have studied the subject and the result of our labour is about to be placed on the market under the name of "The HOT-SPOT electric vaporiser". The device itself consists of a flange packing washer carrying the electric heating device, and a terminal for connection. This flange washer is substituted for the existing packing washer in the carburettor - induction pipe flange joint, thus the device can be quickly and easily fitted without alteration to the engine in any way whatever. | ||