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Hand-drawn sketch on hotel letterhead comparing two designs for cylinder and port/valve layouts with dimensions and engine specifications.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\4\  img195
Date  2nd January 1936 guessed
  
Letterhead: HOTELS NEW YORKER & LEXINGTON, NEW YORK - NETHERLAND PLAZA, CINCINNATI - ADOLPHUS, DALLAS - VAN CLEVE, DAYTON. Book-Cadillac Hotel. DETROIT. Ralph Hitz President.
Diagram 1 Annotations: 1, 1" 7/32, 2" 3/32, 25/32, Ex, 1.543 dia, In, 1.797 dia.
Diagram 2 Annotations: 2, 3 1/2 BORE, 7/32 TOWARDS EXHAUST, 9/32, RUB.
Right Margin Notes: Not to scale. 135 HP. 3 1/2 x 4 1/2. 6 1/4 C/R. V8. CONQUEROR. η vol cu in 135 HP 6.2:
  
  
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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