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 manufacture and fit a new type of plunger for Vulture Automatic Tappets.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 123\3\ scan0124 | |
Date | 5th February 1934 | |
To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X 4704 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.21/KW.5.2.34. Vulture Automatic Tappets. We wish to try a different type of plunger valve and a different method of feeding oil to these tappets. Will you please have an intermediate plunger casing (outer) made to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1296, and have this fitted with two plungers to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1298. We require .001 diametral clearance on each of these plungers. Attached are necessary Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} drawings. These parts are required as soon as possible. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/C.S. Steadman. | ||