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).
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 | |
| x5060 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. | ||