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).
The failure of gauze petrol filters due to rotting and causing blockages in a customer's car.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 135\2\ scan0009 | |
| Date | 18th March 1920 | |
| Contd. -2- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LG18.3.20. such gauze for our petrol filters. We know that the present gauze is unsatisfactory. We have had a report from Mr. Hanbury lately where a customers' car gave a lot of trouble owing to the gauze petrol filter rotting and pieces of the gauze found their way to the low speed jet and stopped the flow of petrol. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} | ||