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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).
Engine chirping issues and remedial actions taken on a 3-ring piston.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 19\7\  Scan018
Date  19th February 1910
  
R.R. 134m (100 T) - S.H. 89. 7-7-20; G 1769
X.790.
omitted Price's
also Valvoline
ENGINE - CHIRPS.
Fixed 3-ring piston .006" top .002 bottom straight
taper - 1200 car - 80 lbs. compression.
Chirps got bad after 500 miles.
Cleaned piston top - little better -still bad but improved
Cleaned cylrs. all round. O.K.
J.P.
19.2.10.
  
  


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