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).
Page describing the slow running arrangement and disadvantages of a carburetter.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 124\3\ scan0294 | |
| Date | 15th January 1935 | |
| -3- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swd1.5/KW.15.1.35. The slow running arrangement has fixed jets and air bleeds feeding into two holes in each throttle bore, one on the suction side and the other on the atmospheric side of the throttle. The suction side hole only is adjustable by a taper needle with a similar effect to our eccentric rotation about the throttle edge. One of the disadvantages to this carburetter is the number of small fixed jets incorporated; another is that the float chamber is open to atmospherics and not balanced with the air intake depression. The accelerator pump is operated directly with the throttle lever and delivers petrol through a common metering plug to a small pipe in each choke tube. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/L.H.Swindall. | ||