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).
Requesting the modification of two air valves for a Bentley carburation system.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 31\5\ Scan235 | |
Date | 18th September 1934 | |
To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} +1487 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}11/KW.18.9.34. Bentley Carburation. We are handing to you two air valves out of standard S.U. Carburetters, as used on the Bentley. Will you please modify these as follows: Complete the machining operations as shown on E.60073, so that the shrouds (also supplied) may be fitted in a similar way as those on the standard 20/25 Horizontal carburetter. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} | ||