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 from Solex Ltd. concerning carburettor testing and performance improvements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 121\2\ scan0060 | |
| Date | 5th December 1928 | |
| 43603 SOLEX LTD. Director GORDON RICHARDS. SOLEX WORKS - 223-231 MARYLEBONE ROAD LONDON N.W.1. Telegrams SOLEXCARB BAKER LONDON Telephones PADDINGTON 8621 8624 8622 8625 8623 8626 YOUR REF. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}4/LG OUR REF. IM/GR{George Ratcliffe} 5th December 1928. Messrs. Rolls Royce Ltd., Experimental Dept., DERBY. Dear Sirs, For attention of Mr.W.A. Robotham. We beg to confirm the visit of the writer to your Works on the 3rd inst. and are pleased to note that with the 34 and 165 setting an excellent load curve was obtained. You will note that this is a very appreciable improvement upon your standard performance at practically all parts of the curve and we suggest that the carburettor is now ready for a road test. Assuming that you will be agreeable to this being carried out very shortly, we have sent the bench test figures to Paris and asked them to let us have an early date for a visit which we will in due course communicate to you when we hear from them. We note that the throttle curve is not very good CUSTOMERS' CARS ARE ONLY DRIVEN BY OUR STAFF AT OWNERS' RISK. | ||