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 instruct the production of six sets of copper tubes for SS aluminium cylinder heads to test for corrosion.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 14\3\ Scan037 | |
| Date | 2nd July 1929 | |
| BY/CS. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} C. BY/SS.{S. Smith} -------- X7050 BY7/G.2.7.29. Will you please arrange to instruct up six sets of copper tubes suitable for the SS.{S. Smith} aluminium cylinder head. We have in mind putting these in on a number of the experimental cars in order to ascertain whether the copper tube in conjunction with the aluminium head will represent a stable proposal. Our reason for trying these is that we have one car which in the owners hands has developed rather rapid corrosion on the aluminium tube. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} BM | ||