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Requirement for automatic advance control on a Delco-Remy battery ignition distributor.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 163\7\  img051
Date  7th September 1925
  
EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} from Wd. {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead}

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Wd {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead} 8/K7.9.25.

X.4284 DELCO-REMY BATTERY IGNITION.

I received yours EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 3/T3.9.25,but before I had time to give consideration to the point raised by you, we received the attached letter from Delco-Remy & Hyatt Ltd.,dated the 4th inst. together with quotation and blue prints Nos.005249 and 002178, therein referred to.

You will note these people have offered a sem-automatic distributor i.e. a distributor having automatic control of the advance and retard in addition to the usual manual control.

I note from yours EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 3/T3.9.25 that you do not actually need automatic control in addition to the usual manual control, unless there may be reasons of a non technical nature for asking for one with automatic control specially. I know of no reasons of a non technical nature for asking for automatic control,therefore, if you still prefer that we apply to Delco-Remy for a revised quotation for distributor without automatic advance, I will ask them to furnish us with that quotation for form of apparatus.

Please return all the attached papers with your reply.

Wd. {Mr Wood / Mr Whitehead}

ENCLOSURE No 9 "JUSTSO"
  
  
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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