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).
Urgent fitting of pistons for a car scheduled for a 10,000-mile run in France.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 77\3\ scan0076 | |
| Date | 9th December 1919 | |
| Contd. -2- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}3/LC9.12.19. -------------- a ram with three rings, the drawings for these are promised for tomorrow. We anticipate it will be 10 to 14 days before we can get a set of these improved pistons running. We are anxious to fit some ram pistons to the car which is to run 10,000 miles. To keep its appointment in France, this car must be completed in 10 days, we cannot therefore, fit the improved pistons. Now that the amount of over-oiling with present ram pistons is not too bad, we have hopes of being able to improve them sufficiently for them to be used. [Handwritten Note] E.H. not now required at Lyons until morning 13 Jan: | ||