Instructing a change in exhaust valve diameter for a Bentley competition cylinder head.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 86\1\ scan0112 | |
| Date | 2nd January 1935 | |
| 4219 To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /CTS. {C. Trot Salt - Carburation} 23/KW.2.1.35. Competition Cyl. Head (Bentley). With reference to our memo. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 2/KW.4.12.34. To bring this head into line with our present experiments, will you please fit 1.300 dia. exhaust valves instead of 1.350 dia. as originally instructed. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /C.T. Salt. | ||
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).