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 fit a high pressure petrol pump, filter and associated piping on a chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 91\2\ scan0418 | |
| Date | 3rd November 1937 | |
| 300a+C HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}11/JH.3.11.37. 32-EX, Will you please fit a high pressure petrol pump in the frame of the above chassis together with a filter to ECD.137 mounted on the carburettor. This drawing shows an additional boss cast in the water pipe to a bracket for the flexible pipe. We wish to use the core plug already existing on the pipe to carry the bracket and then connect the other endof the flexible pipe to a standard pipe connector mounted on the dash. The pipe from the pump to come outside the frame then up the dash to the connector. The position of this commutator to suit the flexible pipe and placed in the sloping portion of the dash. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems} | ||