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).
Use of metal versus bakelite tubing for ignition wires on an SS experimental chassis.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 52\1\ Scan095 | |
| Date | 1st November 1928 | |
| To EY. from EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} X4473 EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 1/T1.11.28. SS. {S. Smith} IGNITION WIRE TUBING X3714 Further to my EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 2/T24.10.28 addressed to R. {Sir Henry Royce} (copy to yourself), I have now received a note from R. {Sir Henry Royce} of which the attached is a copy. You will see from this that his suggestion is that we still have a metal tube for the battery ignition side, but that the magneto ignition should be arranged with an all-bakelite tubing. Presumably, therefore, this is the arrangement you would wish instructed for the first SS. {S. Smith} experimental chassis. EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} | ||