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).
Supplying electrical starter sets with Lucas and C.A.V. motors for Eagle engines to be tested on a cruiser flying boat.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 37\2\ scan 020 | |
| Date | 14th February 1918 | |
| R.{Sir Henry Royce} R.{Sir Henry Royce} 235a (500 T) (S. D.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} 408. 26-4-17.) Bm. 2/156/15. X3328 14th February - 1918. To EH. from BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} c. to Mr Ormerod. c. to Mr Hargreaves. BY11/P14218. RE ELECTRICAL STARTER. The Air Board have written to the Company suggesting that we should supply two complete sets of Electrical Starters and gear for the Eagle engines, in order that the scheme may be tested out in actual service on a cruiser flying boat. I would suggest that it will be necessary for us to complete four sets, two fitted with Lucas motors and two fitted with C.A.V. motors. We are certain to require these later on, and it would be wise to push them through, so that we shall have two sets at our works for experimenting with after the original two sets have been completed. BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} | ||