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List of instructions for modifying and testing the B.60 No: 2 engine.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 124\2\  scan0061
Date  12th March 1940
  
HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /RH. {R. Hollingworth}
1044
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /JRS.17/ML.12.3.40.

B.60. No: 2.

Re Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /JRS.8/ML.4.3.40 and 2/ML.6.3.40.
please carry out the work in the following order:

(1) Remove balance weights and rebalance crankshaft.
(2) Modify wheelcase to take Summers indicator, but do not fit.
(3) Return engine to No: 5. test house for test.
(4) Fit Summers indicator shaft to camshaft.

The existing spindle in the crankshaft is to be left in.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /JRS.
  
  
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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