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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).
Modifications for petrol tanks, luggage carriers, fillers, and gauge fittings.

Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\D\January1920\  Scan28
Date  1st January 1920
  
To DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} from R.{Sir Henry Royce}
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R1/G28/1/20 Contd.

which serves as a better protection for the petrol tank. This other design will require considerable modifications to the various fittings and will have to stand over for a future occasion, because the more usual one that you have in hand, with the modifications we have suggested, should be available at a very early date.

X3889X 368V It is in connection with such a luggage carrier that the difficulties arise with the filler and the petrol gauge which we mentioned in a recent letter. The filler is nearly completed and I think will be found simple and efficient, and I should be glad if you could put it in hand as soon as you receive the drawings.

We have not finally fixed either the position or the angle of the nozzle, and have left you this so that you can try with a wooden model on several chassis to which various bodies are fitted, so as to get a universal position which we assume should in each country be on the pavement side, naturally next to the garage, so that in the case of an American hose it would not have to be taken half way across the street.

X.3888 We understand you are submitting an alternate fitting for the centre of the car for the reserve quantity. This matter has had some attention from us, and Mr. Elliott will send a sketch of how far the matter has got.

I hope you will think that the arrangement we have suggested is simple and safe from leakage of air point of view, and worthy of the little extra trouble of fitting the small piece of sylphon tube instead of a gland. As we have schemed it

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