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).
Instructions for building a Semi-Expanding Carburetter with specific modifications.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\4\ scan0045 | |
| Date | 25th January 1934 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x205 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swd1.17/KW.25.1.34. Will you please build up a Semi-Expanding Carburetter to L.O.P.E84480, and incorporating the following modifications:- (1) Delete Adaptor E.83985 and machine carburetter body to V.1652. (2) Modification to Jet Sleeve (V.1650). (3) The Diffuser Base (E.83968) must be made an almost driving fit in the carburetter body (E.83947) in order to carry out its job of separating 2 petrol feed passages. At present the drawing limits allow .002 slack. Please supply complete air intake for the above, also breather pipe and special rocker cover to suit. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/L.H.Swindall. | ||