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).
Request for analysis of a corrosion sample taken from an S.U. Petrol Pump that caused it to fail.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149\1\ scan0014 | |
| Date | 13th March 1934 | |
| X2677 To Hl. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Ewg.6/KW.13.3.34. We hand you herewith a sample of corrosion, taken from an S.U. Petrol Pump. This corrosion rendered the Pumps useless, having stuck the valves down, and we think that the substance has come from the petrol used. Will you please analyse same, and let us have a report. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/J.Bowering. | ||