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).
Submission of a five-gallon drum of special axle oil for testing against a competitor's product.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 136\5\ scan0262 | |
| Date | 3rd November 1930 | |
| X2066. To MX.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}5/MJ.3.11.30. SPECIAL AXLE OIL. We are sending you herewith one five gallon drum of oil (Oline) from the refining Co., South Road, Hansworth, BIRMINGHAM. This is a compound made to obtain the same results as Whitmore's. We shall be obliged if you would submit this oil, to the same test as you carried out on Price's oil some time ago. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||