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).
Modifications to a float and needle mechanism.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 93\2\ scan0097 | |
| Date | 3rd October 1935 | |
| E.1/HP.3.10.35. needle seat, and the weight of the needle itself, and also to increase the leverage of the float over the needle. These three modifications should allow us to increase the gauge of the float pressings and relatively also the power of the float mechanism over the needle, the needle force would then become the smaller quantity in the balance sheet. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} | ||