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).
Request to manufacture three lighter battery ignition levers and modify the rocker block to address ignition irregularities.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\2\ scan0148 | |
| Date | 6th December 1931 | |
| X6120. RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. c. By/RD. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.3/AM6.12.31. IGNITION DISTRIBUTOR. Will you please have three lighter battery ignition levers made up in accordance with drawing D.73374. The rocker block D.73378 is being modified by By/RD. owing to the fact that the rocker blocks have come loose on the original scheme, and modifications XXX instructions will be issued shortly for this piece. We should like to have the levers made up as soon as possible as we wish to fit these on 25 HP. test bed engines where there are complaints of ignition irregularity at high speeds. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||