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).
Drawing LeC. 2123 for the EAGLE XV1 engine, requesting a wooden model of the combustion space and a duralumin cylinder stud.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\N\2July1925-September1925\ Scan42 | |
| Date | 18th August 1925 | |
| TO BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} FROM E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} Copy to - RB.{R. Bowen} " " HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ORIGINAL E1/M18.8.25. EAGLE XV1. X4114 X4098 We send you herewith drawing LeC. 2123., shewing some cyl. details and particulars of the head joint washers. We shall be glad if you will instruct the pattern shop to make a model of the combustion space in wood, as the volume of this has not been determined yet with any degree of accuracy. We would draw your attention to the forging under the large cylinder stud for this engine, which we should like you to have made in duralumin to the particulars given for the purpose of saving weight. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} [Stamp in bottom left corner: H.Q. 10 AUG 1925 R] | ||