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).
Instructions for assembling the B.60 No.1 unit for further endurance testing with specific new and modified parts.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 123\5\ scan0204 | |
| Date | 1st December 1938 | |
| 104H also spec. To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}7/MH.{M. Huckerby}1.12.38. B.60 No.1 UNIT. Will you please assemble the above unit for further endurance as follows. We are anxious to get running again as soon as possible. (1) As soon as possible fit new modified tappets PD.324. Until these are ready fit new exhaust tappets. For inlets fit original Wraith steel type tappets and push rods to suit, these require faces grinding flat. (2) New pistons (Aerolite) which Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} will supply. 3 are normal EB.2844 pistons and 3 have had special R.R. treatment. (3) New inlet valve springs and washers, EB.4401/2 and 3. (4) Studebaker crank damper which with slight mods. as schemed by HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/Bellamy can be fitted. (5) New exhaust valves required if available, these being Sodium filled and in accordance with our memo Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} 19/MH.{M. Huckerby}24.11.38. (6) New belt required, this to be supplied by Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} | ||