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).
The fabrication of low-tension contact points from new tungsten material.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 35\5\ scan 081 | |
| Date | 27th November 1919 | |
| X. 2894 To Mr. Coverley. from EFC. c. to EH. EFC5/T27.11.19. X.2894 - RE TUNGSTEN POINTS We are handing you herewith, two short pieces of Tungsten rod which have been obtained from the B.T.H. Co., for the purpose of making up low tension contact points. Will you kindly attempt to make contacts from these bars and fit them to a blade and a screw of our present standard battery ignition contact breaker. We hope you will be more successful with this material than was possible with that obtained from Messrs. Gallenkamp. We are handing to you a suitable blade, but will you kindly obtain the screw required. If we are able to do this job satisfactorily, we would like to put these contacts on the 10,000 mile chassis. EFC. First Note and Tungsten lost in post. | ||