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Secret internal memo proposing a design modification to piston X8040 with a supporting sketch.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 180\M3\M3.2\  img023
Date  19th March 1925
  
Series R Project Draught from PAT
TO. E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} FROM R. {Sir Henry Royce} SECRET R1/M19.3.25.
Copy to - CJ. E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} A. {Mr Adams} C.
Copy to - HY {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer}
Copy to - HS. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
PISTON. X8040
No proposals received regarding the above.
I suggest increasing the diagonal web substantially at split side only, and spreading so that saw cut finishes in large hole close to web:-
Would this bolt close hole for piston pin, reinforce and fix piston pin.
R. {Sir Henry Royce}
C.J.C.
  
  
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).


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