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 produce a new 'China' camshaft with modified timing for the exhaust cam.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 102\5\ scan0108 | |
| Date | 9th December 1931 | |
| R.H.C. From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} 8509 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}1/MA.9.12.31. NEW CHINA CAMSHAFT. Will you please produce a camshaft to the drawing E.57177 but with the exhaust cam. leading the inlet cam. by 113° instead of 110.5 as at present. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson} | ||