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).
Comparing the weights of a standard exhaust system and a new single downtake exhaust system, noting a weight saving.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 71\2\ scan0202 | |
| Date | 18th November 1927 | |
| To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X8840 RHCll/BE. 18.11.27. We attach comparative weights of the standard exhaust system to L.O.P. E.75944, and the new single downtake exhaust system to L.O.P. E.76449. It will be noted that there is a saving in weight on the single downtake exhaust system of 11.385 lbs. RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} | ||