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).
Car performance issues including top gear, clutch, and crankcase breather faults.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 155\1\ scan0212 | |
| Date | 6th April 1936 | |
| -3- HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}10/HW.6.4.36. Complete car weight - 52 cwts. 3 qrs. 14 lbs. Report. Top gear works out on the track but had never worked out under road conditions. Slipper wheel requires resetting, very bad engine period at 70 m.p.h., clutch jaggers badly. The crankcase breather has the same fault as previously reported on 32-EX, oil is sucked out when travelling at high speed, and the underneath of the car is covered with oil. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/F.Dodd. | ||