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).
Amended programme of work for a car, focusing on testing lap speed and methods to reduce oil temperature before its return to France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 160\3\ scan0285 | |
| Date | 24th February 1939 | |
| 1379- Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/GR.{George Ratcliffe} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/OTS. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}15/R.24.2.39. In view of the fact that it has been decided to postpone the publicity run on this car, the following is the amended programme of work which we should like done before the car returns to France. We want to get a lap speed on the car when it is fitted with the unit now on the Test Bed with a forward-facing air intake and the large manifold with cut-out to suit. We want to try a radiator matrix made by Marstons with a less dense core to see whether the increased air flow will reduce the oil temperature. Coupled with this we want to try any known method of reducing oil temperature as all this information will be useful on the B.V. Continental car. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||