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).
Report page discussing competitor technology from Buick and Cadillac, future engine concepts, and internal resource allocation.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 173\1\ img230 | |
| Date | 7th February 1934 guessed | |
| 6 Buick's use a single thermostat valve and a spring loaded by-pass which opens by the water pressure when the thermostat closes. It is somewhat ironical that the 500 # car alone can afford to support a research organization such as the Harrison Corporation; it is more disturbing to realize that Cadillacs are fortunate enough to have these facilities at their disposal. I will let you have something about Pratt & Witneys when I have time. Summers believes the water-cooled engine will come again as a pressure steam cooled, 50 lbs. per square inch power thus generated used to drive auxiliaries before passing to condensers at atmospheric. This sounds somewhat futuristic. I hope that when I get back we may be able to arrange for one competent person to be allotted to each specific chassis component, and in the re-arrangement of the shop find room for these people to sit down and think momentarily at any rate. Now we are running three chassis we must be able to afford this. [Perhaps these reports may be some use in the struggle for accommodation.] ***** Leave out /# | ||