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 modify a 20/25 standard battery ignition distributor for high-speed work on the test beds.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\2\ scan0150 | |
| Date | 23th December 1931 | |
| X6120. To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.9/KT.23.12.31. HIGH SPEED BATTERY IGNITION DISTRIBUTOR. Will you please have a 20/25 standard battery ignition distributor modified for high speed work on the beds, by fitting a lighter contact breaker lever and brass bush inside the tower to prevent excessive wear of the distributor, causing the points to vary. This is urgently required as high speed tests on the test bed are held up because of suspected ignition trouble. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||