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).
Engine experiments, including running an Eagle VIII on gas and upcoming tests on a diesel engine for airships.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 65\4\ scan0233 | |
| Date | 1st July 1928 guessed | |
| contd : - -2- frequency of 4000 vibrations per min. in a shaft with a calculated frequency of 5000 per min. They have also got an Eagle Vlll. engine at Cambridge which they are running on gas. The composition of this gas was kept secret, but they say the engine runs better on it than on petrol. We understand the gas is obtained from oil by some secret cracking process, and the experiments are preliminaries for Airship work. Experiments are shortly to be commenced in the laboratories on a small Diesel engine of the aircraft type. hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/S.S.Tresilian. | ||