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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).
Continued description of a regulator's operation, involving carbon granules, an auxiliary contact, and an operating coil.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 31\1\  Scan146
Date  14th November 1922 guessed
  
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pressure on the carbon granules is sufficiently removed by the action of the regulator. This auxiliary contact connects the field as a shunt across the first few turns of the main operating coil which are of heavier wire than the remainder.

The result of this is that there is no top speed limit to the action of the regulator.
  
  


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