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).
Cylinder bore wear, contradicting a paper by 'Alex' and considering publishing alternative findings in the USA.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 132\5\ scan0109 | |
| Date | 8th March 1940 | |
| 11/23 Extract from Page 3 of RM{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}8/ML8.3.40 to "Oy" in Car File No 3 "Gearboxes & Gears". CYLINDER BORE WEAR. You probably saw his (Alex.) paper on cylinder bore wear, which annoyed me so much that I have spent some time digging up the information we have obtained through the past 20 years, and the results contradict almost every word he says. I went down to see him this week, and pointed out the error of his ways to him; also that I was going into print with the facts we had found, to save the English automobile industry from being lead up the garden path by trying to make standard cylinder iron run 70,000 miles between rebores. Without any sign of a blush, he admitted that he was putting inserted liners in the new engines he was designing. You might ask the S.A.E., if they would like to publish the paper in the States as, of course, owing to the war, it might be rather wasted in this country. Its only merit is that it has as its basis the records of our Service Departments over the last 20 years, and the conclusions which we can draw from some intensive experimental work carried out during the last 18 months. ****** | ||