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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).
Extract discussing the use of a six-cylinder induction pipe to eliminate blowback and allow for a straight-through carburetter.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 42\2\  Scan034
Date  23th March 1918
  
R.R. 235A (500 T) (S.D. 408. 26-4-17.) Bm. 2/156/13.

X. 3285.

Extract from EH1/LG23.3.18.

INDUCTION PIPES

If we used a six cylinder pipe so that there would be no blowback, we could then use a straight through carburwtter with a concentric ring float similar to the H.C.8 this would avoid bias being caused on the mixture.
  
  


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