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Request to try an R. engine type camshaft in a 3.500 Bore Bentley and have the tappets Fescolised.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 85\3\  scan0042
Date  3rd October 1935
  
To RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
x 207
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Smth.1/KW.3.10.35.

3.500 Bore Bentley.

We wish to try the R. {Sir Henry Royce} engine type camshaft Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 965 in a big bore engine, and shall use the .750 radius bottom tappets Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 351 in conjunction with this.

Will you please have the tappets Fescolised on the rubbing surface. We are handing them to H.P.S.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Smth.
  
  
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).


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