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).
Radiator overheating problem on a Phantom car and a temporary fix.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 47\2\ Scan207 | |
| Date | 25th October 1929 | |
| X4117 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}10/E25.10.29 Mr.Short of Short Bros. was seeing me yesterday about something to do with aero engines. In the course of conversation he talked about his Phantom car. I do not know whether you know it but he personally has had a tremendous amount of trouble with its radiation, and our people have had several tries to get it right but up to the present have not been successful. He [text struck through] mentioned that on one occasion after he had had it back from us it was quite impossible to use it without the water boiling even at 45 miles per hour, and as he had to make a journey, one of his people restricted the flow from the pump to the radiator and he since has been able to use the car without the water boiling at all speeds up to 60. He of course recognises that this is only a temporary measure, & but I was wondering whether there was anything worth special note in this experiment his people made, i.e. are our troubles in any way associated with too great a flow from the pump with the radiator with the smaller spaces between the tubes? Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||