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).
Pitting and corrosion of engine cylinders and proposed experimental treatments.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 38\6\ Scan061 | |
| Date | 27th September 1918 | |
| X3388 To Mr. Chandler. To Mr. Hives. from BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} c. to Mr. Hall. 27th. September, 1918. BY5/T27918. RE CYLINDERS. In view of the fact that our cylinders show marked pitting or corrosion when a jacket is stripped off wherever the water is in contact with the cylinder wall, it is most urgent that we should give serious attention to the scheme set out in my memo BY12/P19718 to Mr. Chandler in which I proposed using the Sulphite Blacking scheme for spanners on the inside of the water jackets and outside of cylinder walls. It was decided after trying one cylinder tentatively that it was worth carrying further and that a set of cylinders for experimental engine should be similarly treated and run experimentally to see that conductivity etc. was not interfered with. Will Mr. Hives see that the above matter is being dealt with as I feel alarmed at the excessive pitting disclosed by cutting the jacket off a cylinder which had only done normal running. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||