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The completion of a new 20-HP engine with modified parts for a 10,000-mile test.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 58\1\  Scan144
Date  2nd June 1926
  
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- from SFT. {Mr Swift}
c. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
c. Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
SFT. {Mr Swift} 18/LMG. 2.6.26.

[STAMP: RECEIVED]

THE NEW ENGINE. (20-HP).

With reference to Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 's memo. Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 5/M22.5.26. please note we shall complete the new 20-HP. Engine and pass same to Test Department this afternoon.

It has been fitted with,-

Lapped Crankshaft.
Steel Main Bearings.
Special Pistons.
New type Connecting Rods complete with steel shell bearings.
Modified Oil Pump.

You will remember that Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} instructs that this engine is to be fitted into chassis 1644 which is going to run a 10,000 mile test in France, and that the engine is to be tested using the Delavel scheme of oil cleansing.

SFT. {Mr Swift}
  
  
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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