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).
Testing a 20/25 cylinder head and requiring a different ignition tower for it.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27a\1\ Scan183 | |
| Date | 11th December 1934 | |
| x4013 To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}1/MJ.11.12.34. 20/25 CYLINDER HEAD (6.25:1). The above cylinder head has now been tested and handed back to H.P.S. for inspection. Two gaskets have also been supplied and several sparking plugs. It is also required to run a different ignition tower with this head. Will you therefore please obtain from proeucetion one Standard Bentley Ignition tower complete with a rotor and distributor; these parts to be despatched with the cylinder head to Mr. Sleater (Paris). Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/O.T.Salt. | ||