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Letter discussing the performance of a trembler coil and requesting a specific small model for testing.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 180\M2\M2.1\  img010
Date  12th March 1918
  
7CA
RECEIVED
12 MAR 1918
To EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} from R. {Sir Henry Royce}
S.S.C.
ORIGINAL
RE TREBLER COIL.
12th March, 1918.
R5/G12318.
X.562 X.682
X.1607 X.3129

With reference to the trembler on 7 CA, this Battery ignition now works very nicely firing the engine at all reasonable speeds, but I want you to send me, preferably a small model coil, with a condensor coupled with very short wires across the trembler platinums, and a trembler of the same pattern, but with slightly shorter iron in the tail, arranged to give the quickest movement possible of the iron armature, and a comparatively slow return of the platinum blade.

If you cannot send me the small size model coil, send me one of the ordinary size.

I am proposing to use this for four-volt little pumping engine here, or if you send me a six-volt one, I will return you the one from 7 CA so that you can make a test of the current.

R. {Sir Henry Royce}

Sketch attached to Mr. Clark's copy.
  
  
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).


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