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).
Modifications to the carburettor and induction pipe system for a Falcon 10 engine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\3\ Scan007 | |
| Date | 3rd June 1926 | |
| To RG.{Mr Rowledge} from R.{Sir Henry Royce} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} BJ. c. to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} X3841 RA/M3.6.26. FALCON 10. X.3804 X.3841 R.3933 We are very anxious to get this running, with a new cylinder block and the two horizontal carburetters without the blower, at the first possible moment, and suggest that the double manifold to LeC.2248 be put in hand, and with this a single pipe of the same pattern as this double pipe arrangement so that any carb. can be used for the first trial runs, and to prove whether this system of induction pipe is a good one. I suggest this single bend pipe being made, two off, so that one can be turned forward and one backward, and a carb. but on the end of each. Such a carb. as the horizontal Spanish one might be suitable. The reason for putting one forward and one backward is that the two separate carbs. would appear to foul each other if they are both to the rear, or else they might foul the wheelcase. It is understood that you consider the AVT-70 Claudel carb. suitable for the blower for altitude work, and that you are designing a suitable horizontal double one for direct bolting to the double induction pipe, to the particulars already given. These carburetters would have loose chokes so that different sizes can be tried, and would be water heated around the butter-fly throttle valve. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||