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).
Remedy for petrol loss from the filler cap on the Wraith model.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 108\1\ scan0308 | |
| Date | 4th February 1938 | |
| 600a also 1263 To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}11/JH.4.2.38. LOSS OF PETROL ON WRAITH. In view of the remarks regarding the loss of petrol through the filler cap on 26.G.VI. in Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}'s. report, we have a remedy for this trouble as suggested in our memo. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}6/JH. 8.12.37. which is fitted to 28.G.VI. and would like a scheme detailed to enable this to be fitted to all Wraiths, including those being built by RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} We have done away with the vent in the leather washer on the cap and replaced it by a connection on the filler head to take a 3/16" copper pipe which is led across the top of the petrol tank and down clear of the body on the offside of the car. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} | ||