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 an analysis of petrol from a carburetter that is causing flooding issues.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 96\1\ scan0304 | |
| Date | 25th March 1938 | |
| 361 To H1. from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}1/MH.{M. Huckerby}25.3.38. PH.III. 3-BU-184. (13,473 MILES). Will you please analyse the contents of the bottle of petrol we hand you herewith as drained from the carburetter out of the above car. You will see that it contains a lot of foreign matter and as we are having trouble with flooding of which this is possibly the general cause, we should like to know exactly what this is composed of and if there is a possibility of preventing its formation. The carburetter body is a Zinc alloy casting. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||