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Instruction to permanently modify the pattern for a Sports Phantom cylinder head to alter the compression ratio.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 65\4\  scan0383
Date  29th December 1927
  
Y8050
C. Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /SS {S. Smith} 5/K. 29. 12. 27.

SPORTS PHANTOM CYLINDER HEAD
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Will you please instruct the Pattern Shop to permanently modify the pattern for cylinder head E.76656 (5 to 1 compression) so that we may produce castings which will also machine to give(4 1/2 to 1 compression).

This modification will be on the lines already adopted for pattern E.76846 (4 1/2 to 1 compression) which also produces E.76847 (4 1/2 to 1 compression).

Kindly instruct Pattern Shop at once and then follow up with a drawing to the Experimental Shop showing the(4 1/2 to 1 compression.)

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /SS. {S. Smith}
  
  
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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