Proposing a new design for a starter unit using a high-speed engine and dynamo.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\M\Jan1925-March1925\ Scan4 | |
| Date | 18th January 1925 | |
| ORIGINAL Memo FROM R. {Sir Henry Royce} Copy to - C.J. Copy to - E.W.H. Copy to - Copy to - HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} re. STARTER UNIT. X.4129 Will you kindly reconsider this as suggested by you. Would it be too heavy to make a small engine with dynamo very high speed, say 3000 or 4000 R.P.M., and put a motor on each hand starting gear. This has many advantages. The same dynamo could perhaps do wireless. If you could get this starter matter thrashed out, with perhaps Mr. Fowler-Clarke's help, we could discuss it when we next meet, or you could send suggestions to me for further comments. R. {Sir Henry Royce} [STAMP: RECEIVED Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 18 JAN 1925] | ||
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).