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Engine overheating to 95°C and boiling, with details of a sticking valve that was subsequently resolved.


Identifier  Morton\M1.2\  img002
Date  11th May 1922 guessed
  
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has constantly been about 95°C.
& occasionally we have made it boil
of course this is with the radiator
louvres of fan working OK. Whilst
on the roads we had a valve (No 9)
stick open, this was eased off
again & since have had no further
trouble.

J.R.Waldron
  
  
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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