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 discussing the correct lubricant to use for a stored engine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 144\1\ scan0310 | |
| Date | 15th March 1940 guessed | |
| -2- in the case of a stored engine the old oil should be drained and replaced by fresh lubricant of mineral character. We feel sure we satisfied your people that it would be perfectly safe, perhaps indeed desirable to leave the engine filled with Motorine C, a lubricant containing a proportion of fatty oil. Perhaps the information we gave to Hd{Mr Hayward/Mr Huddy}/Sd9/MW has not yet been given effect to. With apologies for worrying you with a little matter which probably is outside your province, I am, Yours sincerely, Sgd. J.W.G.BROOKER. | ||