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).
Request to shorten S.U. carburettors for a 3.500 Bore Bentley induction system.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 90\5\ scan0062 | |
Date | 6th September 1935 | |
RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} x264 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}3/MA. 6.9.35. 3.500 BORE BENTLEY. Part of our development of a new induction system for the above concerns getting the system under the bonnet. We hand you one pair of S.U. carburetters (Brass). Will you please reduce the length of the bodies of these carburetters by .500" by cutting a section out of the throttle bore and brazing the two halves together again. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} | ||