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).
Querying the lack of information on adjustable tappets in a 12,000-mile report on a Cadillac.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 125\2\ scan0221 | |
| Date | 8th March 1935 | |
| GWH{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} xinga To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} Copy to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}E. BY.EP.{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} 12,000 Miles Report on Cadillac Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}5/E8.3.35 Referring to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}19/KW.5.3.35 I have read this through but can find practically no reference to adjustable tappets. The only reference I can find is on Page 2 where it says that they had a period of misfiring due to the sticking of the eccentric bushes of the silent tappets holding the valves full open. Is this really all there is to say, as I understood from Roberts that they had had a great deal of trouble with these adjustable tappets and I was particularly interested because I understood that the Cadillac type was the type that we were proposing to adopt, but I may be wrong. Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} file reported Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} | ||