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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).
The poor condition of a dismantled Delage car engine.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 21\4\  Scan022
Date  28th January 1919
  
To R.{Sir Henry Royce} from EH
c. to CJ.

EH1/LG28.1.19.
28th Jan. 1919.

X.3500 - RE DELAGE CAR+

We have dismantled the cylinders on the "Delage" car and find that one of the big end bearings has run and several of the others are in very bad condition.

The piston rings are very black in the groove; we shall have to fit new rings before we can expect the engine to run.
We are rather disappointed with the car; it looks a nasty heavy brute for a 15.9 H.P.

EH.
  
  


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