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Proposing the construction of a single-cylinder test engine for components and a personal power plant.


Identifier  Morton\M1.3\  img020
Date  26th June 1920
  
To HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R. {Sir Henry Royce}
Copy to CJ.

ORIGINAL.

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x.2048

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26 JUN 1920
R3/G24/6/20.
RECEIVED

I shall be glad to know if you suggest building a single cylinder engine for the "Buzzard(Aero Engine)" and 20 H.P. for you to test out cylinders, valves, pistons, connecting rods, etc.

If so, I should very much like such an engine for my little power plant here, namely, a single cylinder 3" x 4 1/2".

Kindly ask Mr. Wormald if such an engine could be made for me without materially affecting the production of experimental parts of more importance, so that I may ask J's permission for putting one or two in hand.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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