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Instructions regarding an experiment to replace a piston and fit a channelled scraper ring to a 20HP Chassis.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 105\2\  scan0206
Date  16th January 1930
  
To. KHC.
c. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /ACL.

Y5040 BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /CS3/IG.16.1.30.

Re 20HP Chassis - Piston - Sec: 5040.

Please receive herewith two blueprints of -
E.55714 Piston which replaces E.55317.

Will you please instruct as required, together
with the following:-

E.55562 Piston Ring (Channelled Scraper) which
replaces E.55433.
E.80236 Piston Ring Stop (Bottom) which replaces
E.55665.
Remainder to LOP.E.55341.

The above is in accordance with paragraphs 1 & 2
of memo: Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /ACL1/MJ.31.12.29, fitting a Channelled Scraper
Ring to the standard Five Ring Piston.

This completes instructions for this experiment.

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /CS.
  
  
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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