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).
Request to manufacture and reroute a petrol pipe on a chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 108\1\ scan0250 | |
| Date | 8th January 1937 | |
| To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} γ 600a Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}S/MH.{M. Huckerby}8.1.37. 26.G.VI. Will you please make a petrol pipe for the above chassis to connect from the flexible pipe on the engine to the filter on the carburetter. This pipe to come outside the induction pipe and not behind it as at present. This will give a straighter lead and allow a standard spanner to be used on the sparking plugs. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} | ||