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).
25/30 HP car with a new engine unit, expressing dissatisfaction and requesting its return for further work.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 107\1\ scan0419 | |
| Date | 23th December 1936 | |
| 560 Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}15/R.23.12.36. Your 25/30 H.P. Car. We returned your car to London to-day with a new unit in it. We are not satisfied with this engine, but had not time to get it right. We should be glad if you would let us have the car back at some future date, to make it as good as we know how. The idling is representative of what we expect. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||