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 to fit a Double Breaker Peregrine Ignition Distributor to a J.1 engine to improve high-speed performance.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\2\ scan0182 | |
| Date | 29th October 1932 | |
| x6119. RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} from Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst.2/KT.29.10.32. DOUBLE BREAKER PEREGRINE IGNITION DISTRIBUTOR. We wish to fit one of these units complete with governor to the J.1 engine No.C.9 in order to improve the high speed performance of the J.1 engine which at present is limited to a certain extent by the poor high speed operation of the existing 20/25 single breaker distributor. Will you kindly instruct for a suitable adaptor and pinion to be made so that a Peregrine distributor can be fitted experimentally to C.9 for trial. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. | ||