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).
The urgent purchase of two 8-cylinder Delco-Remy distributors.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 168\3\ img205 | |
| Date | 22th June 1939 | |
| (119 To ROY.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to G/JWH. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs}11/JH.22.6.39. re Delco-Remy Distributors. Will you please obtain as soon as possible from Messrs. Delco Remy & Hyatt ltd. two 662W type distributors suitable for 8 cylinder firing, direction of rotation to be clockwise looking on the rotor. With regard to the distributor head, we would prefer the high tension leads to come out horizontally, as in the standard Wraith type unit. O/N.524/8. Urgent. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} | ||