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Instruction to examine and potentially replace valves on a 10,000-mile car due to one being in poor condition.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 82\2\  scan0020
Date  27th February 1934
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
X4553a
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} 6/KW.27.2.34.

4-B-IV. 10,000 Mile Car.

Will you please dismantle the cylinder head and examine the valves.

No. 1 exhaust that was taken out during the test was in poor condition, and if the remainder are in the same condition, new valves will have to be fitted.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /G.W.Hancock.
  
  
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).


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