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Request to re-metal and bore out automatic tappet eccentrics and rocker shafts to a specific clearance.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 106\5\  scan0123
Date  22th March 1934
  
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To RHC {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} /HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Std.8/KW.22.3.34.

We send you herewith a set of
automatic tappet eccentrics and rocker shafts.

Will you please have the eccentrics
re-metalled and bored out to give a diametral bearing
clearance of .001" + ½ on the rocker shafts.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /C.S. Steadman.
  
  
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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