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).
Customer complaints of battery ignition failure on a 40/50 model when the engine is warm.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 46\3\ Scan166 | |
| Date | 22th October 1923 | |
| X3129 N. Mr. Bellringer from EFC. EFC4/T22.10.23. RE 40/50 IGNITION. Mr. Minchin tells me he has had trouble with the battery ignition on his 40/50 car. He describes it as "fading away unaccountably when the engine is warm". He says his friend, Sir John Prestige, of the Hart Co., has also had a similar failure and had seen you about it. I have not any reports from the Works of a similar kind of failure and I cannot understand it with mica condensers. Perhaps you would give me some information on this matter which will give me a clue to the actual nature of the complaint. The only complaints we seem to have here are those of failure due to the points wearing rather prematurely. and to overcome this we have experimented with condensers of 50% increased capacity. EFC. [Faint watermark text: ROLLS-ROYCE 1904 MADE AT CROXLEY] | ||