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Standardising a lighter aluminium pressing for the Zenith petrol filter bowl to replace the current heavy metal version.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 44\1\  Scan237
Date  6th October 1928
  
X3700
To CWB. from Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rn. {Mr Robinson}
c. to BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
c. to EP. {G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rn {Mr Robinson} 2/L56.10.28.

AUTOVAC AND ZENITH PETROL FILTER.

With reference to CWB8/CH4.10.28. We have had metal bowls from Zeniths for a long time. We dislike them and they are far too heavy. We shall probably be standardising a neat aluminium pressing about one-third the weight of the Zenith metal bowl.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rn. {Mr Robinson}
  
  
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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