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Request to produce a set of plungers for the Vulture Automatic Tappet Head with modified clearance and diameter.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 123\3\  scan0099
Date  16th January 1934
  
X4704

To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Std.2/KW16.1.34.

We wish to try a set of plungers for the Vulture(Experimental 6 CYL OHV LONG STROKE / Aero Engine) Automatic Tappet Head with the clearance in plunger casings increased to .0015".

Will you please have made for this purpose a set of plungers (to E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} 84412 & E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} 84411) but with plunger diameter reduced from 0.6245" to 0.6240.

These plungers are urgently required in order to get the automatic tappet head on the Vulture(Experimental 6 CYL OHV LONG STROKE / Aero Engine) engine.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /C.S. Steadman.
  
  
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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