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).
Follow-up letter requesting a performance report on a new sliding joint exhaust manifold fitted to chassis 63-EF.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27a\1\ Scan048 | |
Date | 5th April 1932 | |
Handwritten: X4013. File with sealed exhaust manifold (Paris) refs. P.N. W/Madrid RV. c to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Ltd. Hd{Mr Hayward/Mr Huddy}/SB{Mr Bull/Mr Bannister}9/MW5.4.32. Re Chassis 63-EF - Fraser Lawton. --------------------------------- In connection with the new sliding joint type of Exhaust Manifold recently supplied for this car, we shall be glad if you will please refer to the second paragraph of our Hd{Mr Hayward/Mr Huddy}/SB{Mr Bull/Mr Bannister}9/MW7.1.32. in which we asked you to let us have if possible a monthly report as to the beahviour of the new manifold. As we have so far had no report in connection with this matter we shall be glad to know whether you can let us have any information in regard to its behaviour which we can handon to the Experimental Department. We appreciate of course that you may not have had any opportunity of seeing the car since you fitted the new manifold, but we shall be glad if you will please keep the matter in mind and let us have a report as soon as an opportunity occurs for you to examine the car. Hd.{Mr Hayward/Mr Huddy} [Signature] | ||