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).
Design for a petrol feed connection using an Enots olive joint.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149\4\ scan0194 | |
| Date | 18th February 1937 | |
| To E/LID.{A. J. Lidsey} 126/3 Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/JBD.{John B. Dixon - Fuel Systems}7/JH.18.2.37. PETROL FEED CONNECTION. USING ENOTS OLIVE JOINT LEC.5513. In this design for use of an olive joint it shows an enots joint Z4 or 18 screwed into a brass fitting on the tank which necessitates two joints being made unless the enots fitting is screwed and sweated onto the tank connection. It appears to us that the existing fitting to the tank with the spherical union in one piece with the tank connection would be more satisfactory and possibly cheaper. Could you please let us have the difference in cost? The Design Office state that the works are unable to make satisfactory seats for olive joints which necessitates the two pieces. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/J.B.Dixon. | ||