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).
Feedback on the reserve petrol tank tap placement and its proposed implementation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\2\ scan0050 | |
| Date | 19th December 1923 | |
| X3596 CJ. from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}4/LG19.12.23. PETROL TANK. X3596 / X3888 With reference to the attc. CJ11/E18.12.23 and BJ7/H5.12.23. We fitted up a reserve petrol arrangement on a 20 HP. car and sent the car to London on the 24.9.23 for Sales Officials to examine. The criticism they sent was that they considered the tap for operating the device should be on the Instrument Board. To carry the operation on to the Instrument Board means considerable complication and in our opinion would be wrong. We think that when the driver runs out of petrol on the main tank he should expect to get out of the car to operate the reserve. In the normal way, one does not expect a driver to ever use the reserve supply. We think we could get R.{Sir Henry Royce} to agree to a 2-level device on the 20 HP. providing it is fitted up in the same manner as on the car we sent for Sales to examine. As regards the 40/50, a similar device could be fitted on to that chassis when we adopt the autovac supply instead of pressure feed for the petrol. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||