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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).
Requesting a specific machining clearance for the plungers and casings of silent tappets for model 28-EX.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 17\6\  Scan171
Date  31th January 1934
  
To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

X7060

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.16/KW.31.1.34.

Silent Tappets - 28-EX.

As a result of experiments with the
Vulture silent tappets, we should like the plungers
and casings for 28-EX to be machined to give .0015"
diametral clearance in the bore.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/C.S.Steadman.
  
  


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