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).
Request to test a shutter modification on vehicle 22-G-V, measuring temperatures with and without the calorstat spring fitted.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 101\1\ scan0178 | |
| Date | 4th February 1936 | |
| W/LH.{Mr Haworth} - GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} X500a 24 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.15/JH. 4.2.36. We should like you to test the modification which we made to the shutters of 22-G-V by giving us the maximum temperatures reached before the shutters open at high speeds, with & without the calorstat spring fitted, and also the mean running temperature with and without spring. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. | ||