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 addressing car trouble including a front-wheel ball race failure, mis-firing, and brake issues.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 89\1\ scan0296 | |
| Date | 21th October 1941 | |
| (make Breeden file) (261) Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 4/h.{Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} 4007 21st October, 1941. Dear Breeden, Thank you for your letter of the 13th October. The trouble on your car was rather extraordinary. It was a front-wheel ball race failure and, of course, felt exactly like axle or propellor shaft trouble. The failure is quite inexplicable, since I dont remember this trouble occurring on one of our cars during the last twenty years. Do not let your chauffeur worry about the thinness of the lubricating oil as, needless to say, we have run many thousands of miles proving its efficacy. We have had difficulty in reproducing the mis-firing but are going over everything to see if we can trace the trouble. We are dealing with the brakes. I am arranging for the bumper drawings to be sent along. Yours sincerely, C. L. Breeden, Esq., Messrs. Wilmot-Breeden Ltd., Eastern Works, BIRMINGHAM, 1. | ||