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).
Complaints about the Phantom carburettor float chamber cover coming loose and proposing a locking device.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 66a\1\ scan0109 | |
| Date | 19th March 1926 | |
| x8080 To E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} from Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/LG19.3.26. PHANTOM - CARB. FLOAT CHAMBER. We have had a number of complaints of the cover on the float chamber coming loose which has flooded petrol and stopped the engine. We consider that if the float chamber cover is screwed up tightly this will not occur, but we still continue to receive complaints. We recommend that some form of locking device is fitted. The form used on the aero engines was quite satisfactory. Do you agree to our getting BY/SS.{S. Smith} to apply the aero engine form of locking device to the Phantom carburetter? Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} (Watermark: DICKINSON BOND) (Watermark, upside down: MADE AT CROXLEY) | ||