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).
The revised support for the carburettor and induction pipes on the Eagle IX aero engine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 43\1\ Scan063 | |
| Date | 8th October 1924 | |
| To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} c. to BJ. HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} X3989 E1/M8.10.24. RE. EAGLE 1X. AERO ENGINES. X.4126 X.3989 As you are aware the outstanding work that requires to be cleared up in connection with Eagle 1X. engines, is the revised support of the carburetter and induction pipes. Mr. Rowledge gave us two proposed schemes for this, both of which have now been seen by Mr. Royce. Acting on Mr. Royce's instructions we are altering these schemes so that the induction pipes will be almost identical with the Condor 1., which has given satisfaction. As we are out of direct touch down here with the source of complaint, and in view of the circumstances of Mr. Rowledge's absence, Mr. Royce wishes me to give you particulars of what we are doing, and would like to know if you see any reason why it should not give satisfaction, and deal with the whole of the breakages experienced in the induction pipe system. We shall be able to fit the revised scheme, we anticipate, to an existing engine without dismantling the crankcase. It is shewn on the attached skeetch. SEE ORIGINAL FOR SKETCH. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||