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).
Requesting more details on a report about petrol squirting from breather holes during refueling.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 101\1\ scan0154 | |
| Date | 13th March 1936 | |
| W/LH.{Mr Haworth}- GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Bwg.{J. C. Bowring}1/JH.13.3.36. 22-G-V.{VIENNA} In your report of 10.3.36. on the above car you state, "Outside Petrol filter opening generally inconvenient, too small an opening. Petrol squirts out of breather holes". Can you please let us have more details of this trouble, as apart from the anti-surge baffle inside the tank the whole unit is as standard production. It would seem to us that this part of your report refers to the filter on B-56-BN.{W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} Should this be so, will you please let us know if the opening into which the filling pump gun fits is too small, and also the type of gun which you have found awkward to use. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/J.Bowering. | ||