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).
Proposal from Champion Spark Plug Company to supply standardized plugs for testing at less than half the current cost.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 35\3\ scan 151 | |
| Date | 16th February 1923 | |
| X4196 Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} ROY{Sir Henry Royce}7/MG16.2.23 The Champion Spark Plug Company claim Springfield have standardized their Plug, and are anxious we should consider its use on our manufactures here. Extract from letter "We might mention that this is exactly the same plug "as we are fitting to the car in America. We are also "fitting such cars as LEYLAND, LINCOLN, MINERVA, "LORAINE DIETRICH, and many others with CHAMPION PLUGS, "which have been adapted after running a long series "of tests and have proved most satisfactory in every case". They have submitted half a dozen Plugs for test, which I hand you herewith, and which they are offering at less than half our present Plug costs. ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} MADE AT CROXLEY 6 Plugs to accompany this note. | ||