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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).
Requesting an urgent adjustment to the valve timing on the Spectre Unit.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 96\2\  scan0008
Date  5th July 1934
  
To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
+4694 354
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}23/KW.5.7.34.

Will you please make the valve timing on the SpectreCodename for Phantom III Unit tooth later than at present. With .020 clearance this should be approx. -

A.1 cylinder I O 6° Past T.D.C.
E 6 4° " "

We should like this carried out to-night.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/L.H. Swindall.
  
  


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