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Failure of a Spanish carburetter and proposing further tests and modifications.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 42\3\  Scan073
Date  1st January 1927 guessed
  
contd :- -2-

other conclusions i.e., jet and diffuser in float was a failure because of the capacity to be filled up in the diffuser passages: therefore the Spanish carburetter is wrong.

I have not enough dimensions to make a trial of modifications suggested herein, so I am awaiting Mr. Elliott's preliminary attempts at a simple modification if possible, or a new design.

Though we cannot test for acceleration (possibly not of very great moment) we can test the fore and aft inclination, which I think we ought to do, and also learn as much as we can from other makes as well as Curtiss. I believe however Mr. Lovesey is right, and the modifications should be pushed forward in case they are imperative.


R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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