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Progress report on various engineering projects, modifications, and tests.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 76\2\  scan0256
Date  8th March 1921
  
Contd:- -2- 8.3.21.

Battery Ignition N.sch.760 Details completed. Gos:1
Second Motion shaft LeC.1333 Complete details. Gos: 11
Third Motion shaft LeC.1333/1346. Part details. "
Reverse Gear LeC.1333 Complete details. "
Side Channels LeC.1343 Completed. "
Cylinder details LeC.1332 Part completed. "
Water Pump LeC.1335/1340/1347 Part details "
Condenser modification N.sch.746 details completed 40/50
Main switch - 4-terminal series connection N.sch.596 * * "
3/19 Gear box and Actuating Gear LeC.1157 Part details. "
Dash brackets & footbrds: etc. details completed. 40/50 Amer
Frames and Fittings N.sch.511/2. * * "
Klaxon horn switch on steering column N.sch.662 * * "
Spare wheel carrier modification for G.KX * * "
Hot spot induction pipe LeC.1350 Part details. "
Modification to Condenser casing N.sch.746 details completed. "

EXPERIMENTAL WORK IN PROGRESS.
3/19 gear box, flywheel and clutch.
Long type chassis.
Buzzard(Aero Engine) rear axle.
Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 11 engine parts.
Modified brake gear Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) 1

EXPERIMENTAL TESTS.
Road tests of Goshawk(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)).
Exhaust heating tests - 40/50 induction pipes.
Better starting in cold weather.
Distribution tests on 40/50 engine.
Tests on, 15.HP Humber car.

ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTAL WORK.
Completion of new Experimental Laboratory.
Tests of Bleriot Ph1 cut-outs for cars.
Contd.-
  
  
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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