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).
Inquiry regarding a process for creating a hard skin on aluminium to prevent piston seizure.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\2\ Scan036 | |
| Date | 26th April 1933 | |
| X1775. H1. from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/KT.26.4.33. Do you know anything of the attached process of hitting hard skin on aluminium. It would appear to have possibilities of application to pistons to prevent incipient seizure of the skirt which so often take place during running in. We should be glad if you would let us have further particulars. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||