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Record of piston weights for various engine types.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 3\3\  03-page021
Date  13th November 1911
  
B.B.B. No. 22262 A.S.S.B. Co.Ltd.
Engineers
3400
x200
Pistons - Weight of.

Type E 109. Piston & rings 4 lbs 8 oz.
(bronze webs.) (Forward)
(conical & wiper rings)
gudgeon pin, (bolted in) 8 1/4 oz.

Type E 553.
old style, concave top no
internal or cross webs,
bottom bored flush & otherwise
cleaned.
d.tto 3 lbs 12oz.
gud. pin alone 8 oz.
circlips & plug 1/4 oz.

Type E 1429.
(new exp. type, 2 rings below gudgeon pin)
d.tto 4 lbs 11 1/2 oz.
gud. pin (and circlips) 9 1/4 oz.

5 4 3/4
LP {Mr Lappin} 13/11/11
  
  
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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