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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).
Improvements to a battery ignition system, including a cure for back-firing, and comparing it with a Remy ignition.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 163\7\  img010
Date  30th May 1918
  
Contd. -2- R18/G30.5.18.

All these points were carried out in the R.R. car battery ignition, except that a trembler coil was used, which will not be necessary in all cases where an electric starter is used. It was, however, in the old days a decided advantage to have the trembler fitted, as the engine could then always be started on the switch.

The fitting and sending on 7-CA a Remy ignition was well worth while as it led to our finding the risk and cure of back-firing on this type of ignition.

I think the work you are doing on this ignition to be of the utmost value to the Company, providing we can get the apparatus made which we are producing. I have written a long letter to Mr. Johnson for use in connection with the Air Board in pointing out your good work in this direction.

I shall be pleased if you will arrange neatly in a little light convenient packing case, a set of the ignition already made by us, but with the catches holding the parts together rather freer, and better to handle than the set sent to us, and a set of Remy for comparison, with a description of the points that we have endeavoured to improve, one of the points, being suggested to us by the Magneto Dept. of the Air Board *that is, the adjustable points that could be seen and adjusted for gap and cleanliness.

R.{Sir Henry Royce}

*Some time ago. This is the reason for much complication in our design.
  
  


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