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).
Requesting a test on a distributor head and rotor made from a special non-tracking bakelite material.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\2\ scan0115 | |
| Date | 3rd April 1930 | |
| X7690 RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from EFC. c. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AJL: EFC6/AD3.4.30. X.3513. SPECIAL NON-TRACKING BAKELITE MATERIAL X.5690. GRADE XM.1000. X.7690. We are handing to you a distributor head and rotor moulded in the above material which the makers claim is 10 times better than our standard material as regards tracking. Will you please have this head and rotor fitted to chassis 16-G4 for test under service conditions. EFC/HEW. | ||