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).
Axle oil leak, testing a vented plug on car 24-EX as a potential cure, and the centre point lubrication system.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 182\M18\ img011 | |
| Date | 30th April 1930 | |
| -2- HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/RH.{R. Hollingworth}4/11.30.4.30.Contd. interested in is the rate at which an axle can lose oil through a leak of this nature. Having discovered this, we should like to know if the vented axle plug will cure it. 24-EX. The axle on/his car has all the latest modifications on, so this is really the final one to test, to see if we have produced a cure. We are anxiously waiting to hear that you are satisfied with the centre point lubrication system. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rh.{R. Hollingworth} | ||