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 for the inspection of corrosion on nickel-coated copper tubes within a cylinder head after steam treatment.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\3\ Scan055 | |
| Date | 17th March 1930 | |
| x7050. RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson}3/MJ.17.3.30. We hand you herewith cylinder head with nickel coated copper tubes, which has been subjected to super-heated steam treatment for a fortnight. We should be obliged if you would carefully cut three of the tubes out so that we can inspect the manner in which they have corroded at the junction between the tube and the aluminium. The fourth one might be left in for inspection as it stands. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} | ||