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).
Methods for condensing steam in engine cooling systems and comparing them to American approaches.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 24\4\ Scan258 | |
| Date | 29th September 1924 | |
| X766 PN{Mr Northey}10/DN29.9.24. TO Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} c. to BJ FROM PN{Mr Northey} You may remember when I was at the Works recently, discussing with you various points arising out of engine cooling, I suggested that it would be well worth looking into some method for suitably condensing the steam resulting from temperatures rising over 212° Fah: It appears to me that having regard to the following facts, we are in a vicious circle :- Radiators have got to be made within certain dimensions and can only be effective to a limited extent, and that we probably do not want our engine temperature to be less than 212° Fah: if it was not for considerations of losing water. I understand that in America, cooling systems are being tried, in which the radiator is being used for condensing purposes only, and that the water is expected to boil all the time that much duty is being derived from the engine. One Daily Paper states that Rolls-Royce of America Inc. are actually trying this device. Have you any information on this point? I am sending to you (attached) a pamphlet concerning the Lincoln car, various points of which I think will interest you, but especially I will draw your attention to the description of their cooling system, in which a condensing tank is used for avoiding any loss of water resulting from boiling. PN{Mr Northey} PN{Mr Northey} | ||