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 discussing ongoing vehicle testing, specifically addressing damper leaks, gearbox oil loss, and petrol system design.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\4\ scan0102 | |
| Date | 15th July 1935 | |
| +300a G.W. Hancock, Esq., Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. Thank you for your various notes. We hope that you will manage to get the car running again before the hot weather disappears. We appreciate that you have got a lot to do. We wanted Leslie to take some responsibility for the leaks from the front dampers because these are substantially the same as those which are going to be fitted to demonstration cars for Olympia. We should like your opinion, when you have run the car further, as to whether the leaks are going to be permanently cured. Gry.{Shadwell Grylls} has been doing some tests trying to reproduce your loss of oil from the gearbox, and we have asked him to send you a summary of them. We admit we cannot get the same average speeds as you can, but the weather has been exceptionally hot here and we have been using the Towcester Road and yet we cannot lose a drop of oil, so that we feel there is probably some discrepancy between the two boxes. With regard to the petrol system, E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} is of course arranging the filter outside the bonnet, but what I would like you to tell us is this: with the grille removed from the front of the radiator can we or can we not get away without a cold air intake to the carburetters? If we have got to have a cold air intake to the carburetters, it will mean quite a lot of re-designing. Nevertheless, if it is going to give us decent slow running under high atmospheric temperatures, it will be worth while. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}: | ||