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Letter from Delco-Remy & Hyatt Ltd. regarding an oil pumping issue in a car unit and a potential modification.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 163\7\  img268
Date  7th September 1934
  
6036

DELCO-REMY & HYATT LTD.

Head Office & Works:
111, GROSVENOR ROAD, LONDON. S.W.1.

Telegrams:
DELREMHAYT, CHURTON, LONDON.

Telephones:
FRANKLIN 6611-6.
(6 LINES)

[Logo: THE SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS & TRADERS LTD]

H. {Arthur M. Hanbury - Head Complaints} E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} West Esq.,
Messrs. Rolls-Royce Ltd.,
DERBY.

YOUR REF. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.7/MA.
OUR REF. WOK/PP.

7th September 1934.

SUBJECT

Dear Mr. West,

Thank you for your letter of the 5th September and for the interim information given therein.

As far as a car unit is concerned, this oil trouble is a thing we have run into from time to time and I am wondering what modification you are adopting.

We have found that a reverse thread oil groove or a drain hole in the Distributor Shank is sometimes a very satisfactory method of curing this oil pumping and, if it will interest you, I will have some sketches made up showing the sort of thing we have done in the past.

Thank you also for the news of the Aero ignition. I shall look forward with great interest to hearing from you when you have something more definite to report.

Yours sincerely,

[Signature]

Managing Director.

EX 15903
  
  
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).


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