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 for a set of special tappet springs to be made with modifications to part E.83405.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\4\ scan0042 | |
| Date | 12th February 1934 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X 254 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.2/KW.12.2.34. Will you please have a set of special tappet springs made to E.83405 (Standard), but modified as follows :- Spring to be "pulled out" so that load with valve closed (at length of 1.450) is 40 lbs. Number of coils and other dimensions to be same as E.83405. These are urgently required. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/C.S.Steadman. | ||