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 oil consumption test and engine cost analysis on a Chevrolet car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 126\4\ scan0167 | |
| Date | 12th January 1937 | |
| 1056. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies} from Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} c. to HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/R.12.1.37. CHEVROLET CAR. Will you please carry out a careful oil consumption test on this car on 'Castrol XL' and then on 'Mobil-Arctic'. When these tests are completed, will you please put the car in the shop to be stripped. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} wants to get his rate fixers to give him a price for this engine if it were made in the Rolls-Royce Factory. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||