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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).
Cross-section diagram and explanation of an umbrella rotor designed for pure air circulation.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 61b\4\  scan0112
Date  14th May 1927 guessed
  
-3- Contd.

This umbrella rotor looks more like a scheme than an accident made with the object of keeping up a circulation of pure air around the make and break, any gas formed at the H.T. points being carried away without mixing into the air below.

E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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