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).
Viability of a deeper radiator and larger fan for engine cooling, referencing conditions in Switzerland and India.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\7\ Scan068 | |
| Date | 9th October 1922 | |
| X790 To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to CJ. c. to BJ. c. to BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} R2/M9.10.22. RE. SWITZERLAND AND INDIA X.3456 X.3438 X.790 As far as I am aware the 3" deeper (taller) radiator would be much overdoing it, and would not be much use without a bigger fan. I am not sure that a bigger fan is possible. I should suggest a larger fan if it were possible. This is a better way of meeting the trouble than a high speed fan or bigger radiator, but we have no 40/50 car here at present and it is difficult for us to say. I should not have thought the higher compression would have been favourable for keeping the water cooler, in fact, I should have thought it would have been the other way about namely, it would decrease the temperature of the water but decrease the temperature of the exhaust gases and box. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||