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Cross-section drawing of a throttle body with notes on a machining fault causing power loss.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 75\2\  scan0284
Date  2nd February 1922 guessed
  
Throttle Body.

Sharp corner or burr left here by machining face A too deep is most potent cause we have found for causing bad distribution, loading up, + loss of power.

By Feb 3.
  
  
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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