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).
Vehicle starting issues, oil mixtures for cold weather, leaded fuel problems, and the status of the Springfield facility.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\1\ img107 | |
| Date | 25th January 1934 | |
| -2- HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/RA.12/KM.25.1.34. With Mobile A, the starting of the Bentley has been quite O.K. but we have not left it out all night in zero weather yet. They are most particular about oils here. Mobile A, seems largely used and for extreme cold a 50% mixture of kerosine and this oil, which does not sound very sound practice. However, at 20 below, which they have recently had in Springfield, something abnormal has to be done to get the car started. They are having acture trouble on the Phantom with silencer corrosion since starting to use lead. We saw the Ethyl Chief Chemist in N.Y. and arranged to meet him, Heron & Jardine in Detroit, hence our request for his summary of valve tests. So far Ethyl Corporation can do nothing to help up as they cannot reproduce engine results in the laboratory by any means. Springfield somehow continue to keep going on a skeleton staff, and I believe have cut everything so much that they can last quite a long time yet. RM.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||