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).
To Roy requesting an official order for 50 gallons of pure Benzol for the Le Mans race, specifying the required specific gravity.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90a\4\ Scan065 | |
| Date | 1st April 1936 | |
| X1235 To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls}6/KW.1.4.36. We have telephoned to the Birmingham Office of the Anglo-American Oil Company and asked them to obtain for us 50 gallons of the pure Benzol obtainable in France, and which is one of the fuels allowed in the Le Mans race this year. Will you please send them an official order for this quantity. Perhaps it might be as well to tell them that the specific gravity at 15°C. should should between .865 and .885. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} | ||