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).
Tests on substituting hand magnetos with coil ignition for starting.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 37\1\ scan 004 | |
| Date | 10th July 1917 guessed | |
| X.3199 Extract from Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}/Hyl/LG30315. X.1535. RE HAND MAGNETOS. X.3199. X.562. We are making tests to see if the hand magneto can be substituted by a coil ignition for starting, but our first impressions are that our coil does not seem to be powerful enough to jump the gap to the distributor. We will write more about this after further investigations however. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} | ||