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Blueprint diagram showing carbon deposits on engine inlet ports after a 17,000 miles test.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\1\  scan0283
Date  5th November 1936
  
UNIT 'B' 22
AFTER 17,000 MILES TEST
Ex.174
CARBON COLLECTED AS SHOWN ON NOS. 2 & 4 BORES. THERE ARE SIGNS OF HEAVY CARBON DEPOSIT ON ALL INLET PORTS IN SAME POSITION IMMEDIATELY BEHIND VALVE SEATS.
NOTE:- HEAD WAS DECARBONISED AFTER 10,786 MILES.
INLET PORT.
CARBON DEPOSIT.
ROLLS-ROYCE. LTD.
PRINT ROOM,
5 NOV 1936
DERBY.
Ex.174
  
  
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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