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).
Broken petrol pipe on a Peregrine car in France and a request to manufacture replacements.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 169\3\ img009 | |
| Date | 4th December 1932 | |
| RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} P.3 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/ADL 4.12.32. PEREGRINE IN FRANCE. We have information from Hancock again that he has broken the petrol pipe from the filter to the petrol pump on his car. You will remember that we supplied him with one having a bend in it. We observe that we have made the petrol pipe at this point shorter than the one shown on F.100571 Lec.3209. Will you please arrange that 3.Per.II. has a pipe fitted to this drawing. We suggest that one should be made in copper and one in stainless steel as we do not want to use the more expensive material unless it is found necessary as a result of tests. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||