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Query regarding the effectiveness of a modified ignition coil for high compression engines.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 164\5\  img145
Date  11th April 1932
  
WST X6058
S/W. {Sales / Derby Works}
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst...from PN. {Mr Northey}
Copy to Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer}
By. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
PN. {Mr Northey} 3/WT11.4.32.
Ignition.
In reply to your Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst/7/AD 8.4.32 the point in my PN. {Mr Northey} 5/WT6.4.32 was really to query whether even with our modified ignition coil we succeeded in producing sufficient secondary EMF. in view of the high compressions coming into use.
PN. {Mr Northey}
  
  
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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