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).
Letter from The S.U. Company regarding dirt and swarf found in their carburetters.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 31\5\ Scan251 | |
Date | 13th November 1934 | |
H1487 STATION:- ADDERLEY PARK, L.M.& S. Rly S.U. CARBURETTER FLEXIBLE SILENT THE S.U. COMPANY. PROPRIETORS: MORRIS INDUSTRIES LTD East Works, Bordesley Green Road, Adderley Park-Birmingham, 8. TELEPHONES: EAST 1662 AND EAST 1663. General Manager: T. C. Skinner. TELEGRAMS: FLEXCARBUR, BIRMINGHAM. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/BWG.{J. C. Bowring}24/KW. Your Ref. ________ Our Ref. DR/NK. 13th November 1934. J.C. Bowering Esq., Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd. DERBY. Dear Mr. Bowering, Thanks for your letter of the 12th, and regret to note your remarks regarding carburetters. I am looking into this matter immediately, although how dirt and swarf can get in is difficult to understand. We do our utmost to eliminate it from yours and other carburetters by first of all degreasing and then blowing out with compressed air, but even under these conditions we do at times have complaints that swarf gets in, although we find it very difficult to get direct evidence that it is present. Should you get another carburetter in this condition, I should be greatly obliged if you would return to me exactly as received, to enable me to take up a stronger action in the shop. Yours sincerely, [Signature] | ||