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 experiment with a 50% stronger contact breaker spring for the battery ignition tungsten contact point.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\1\ scan0108 | |
Date | 6th June 1930 | |
X2894. By, from EFC. EFC6/ADL.6.6.30. X.2894. BATTERY IGNITION TUNGSTEN CONTACT POINT EXPERIMENTS. Will you please arrange for the instructioning of a 50% stronger contact breaker spring experimentally. It will be remembered that we previously, i.e. before the alteration in the design of the spring anchorage, made experiments with stronger springs but that the springs themselves were not satisfactory owing to being over stressed. The present design permits of increasing the strength of the spring with much less likelihood of failure by over-stressing. EFC. | ||