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Recommending an immediate change to the lubrication method for 20 HP valve tappets, and requesting a new design for a 3-stage relief valve.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 106\5\  scan0025
Date  25th April 1928
  
To BY; from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
c. to MX {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} ;
c. to Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}

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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 3/LG25.4.28.

LUBRICATION OF 20 HP. VALVE TAPPETS.

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We recommend as an immediate step, we ought to adopt the method of increasing the oil to the 20 HP. tappets as suggested in MX {John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer} 4/T2.4.28. We would of course prefer that it was similar to the Phantom.

We cannot get this until we have a 3-stage relief valve for the 20 HP. We have written to E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} pointing out the difficulty and asking him to supply a design for a new relief valve for the 20 HP. as soon as possible.

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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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