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 to the National Benzole Company Ltd. concerning the use of Benzole fuel in a 20-HP car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 1\2\ B001_X 53-page58 | |
| Date | 28th November 1924 | |
| N53 EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}/Thn7/H281124. November 28th 1924. The Managing Director, National Benzole Company Ltd., Wellington House, Buckingham Gate, LONDON. S.W. 1. Dear Sir, We beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 26th. inst. with regard to the use of Benzole on a 20-HP Rolls-Royce car recently purchased by one of your colleagues. We presume you refer to W. Newton Drew Esq., whom we understand has purchased a 20-HP Rolls-Royce car, No. GDK-39. We are arranging to carry out the final test of this complete car when finished at the coachbuilders on Benzole which Mr. Newton Drew is arranging to be supplied for this purpose. We have already informed this gentleman that we will arrange to supply a special float for the carburetter to enable him to run on this spirit. With regard to the question of the use of Benzole with Rolls-Royce cars generally, we have passed your letter on to our Experimental Department, for their attention. We are, Yours faithfully, | ||