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).
Continued discussion on float indicator designs for fuel tanks, mentioning an alternative scheme.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\2\ scan0056 | |
| Date | 1st August 1920 | |
| Contd. -3- Dal/CB3.8.20. outside the tank and pushed in, the float ebing swivelled round a knuckled joint as it goes in, but on Fig. 3 is shewn an alternative scheme which we are disposed to favour in which the float is secured to the spindle by a simple clammping device, after the indicator is in the tank. We have considered a number of other suggestions for an indicator but have discarded them either because they appered to be too elaborate, or because it did not seem possible to make them with sufficient accuracy to meet the Octroi requirements. An objection to several is that the indicating spindle comes at one end of the apparatus and thus does not suit itself to the tank in the same way that the float and lever arrangements does, in which the spindle comes in the centre. The reserve arrangement is following immediately. Da.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||