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).
Vehicle repair costs, mileage targets, and oil consumption.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 107\2\ scan0121 | |
| Date | 26th May 1938 | |
| - 3 - EY.13/C.26.5.38. pay. I am not even in agreement with Repair Department's suggestion that we only charge [strikethrough]27000[/strikethrough] of the cost (with 40000 typed below the struck-through number), as he could have easily achieved the 40,000 as I have done by accepting an oil consumption of round about one gallon per 700 miles, I aim to get 50,000 miles from my car before re-grinding. By EY. | ||