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).
Suggestion to add an oil catching cover with a drain pipe to address customer complaints about oil leaks on the front wheels.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 49\4\ Scan001 | |
| Date | 16th May 1912 | |
| COPY. Mr. Wormald. Referring to the general complaint of Customers in the Summer weather of oil leaking all over the front wheels and tyres. as there is no means of making certain the front wheels are full of oil until you see it coming out all over the tyres. Might I suggest we design them so that there is an oil catching cover with a drain pipe. The same as the devise for keeping oil off the rear brakes and then the excess oil would drain on the road through the pipe instead of at present making such a mess and destroying the tyres. sgd. J.{Mr Johnson W.M.} Capel. | ||