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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).
Typed page outlining the principles of modern high-speed Diesel engines and the need for automatic fuel injection timing.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 41\4\  Scan030
Date  30th August 1930 guessed
  
DIESEL ENGINES

In all fields the modern high speed Diesel engine burns a large portion of its fuel at constant volume requiring an automatic control of timing of fuel injection. This is necessary to prevent excessive explosion pressures and is especially true of the variable speed Diesel engine. This sontrol system has the necessary power to actuate desired controls without servo-motors.
  
  


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