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Instruction sheet detailing the optimal main brush position for Goshawk dynamos.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 50\5\  Scan165
Date  30th April 1923
  
RR 238 (300 Bks.) (SP {Mr Spinney} 152. 6-11-18.) MP 197880
X. 4333
ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED.
INSTRUCTIONS.
To: EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer}
Order No: AB 69.
Customer's No.: 1
Date: 30 April 1923

Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) Dynamos
Main brush position.

The best position of the main brushes on the Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) dynamos for cutting-in, output, & commutation as deduced from curves of performance of standard & experimental machines is about 9° 10' retarded from the neutral position. The present standard position is approximately 1° 50' retarded, so that the further movement required is 7° 20'.

Signed: F.J. Allen
This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work.
  
  
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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