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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).
Cover note for sketch Hs.747 detailing a modification to the cylinder head compression ratio for the Peregrine engine.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 19\7\  Scan150
Date  29th October 1932
  
PEREGRINE
Files.
x/90
29.10.32.
The attached sketch Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}747 shows a means of altering the compression ratio of cylinder heads to E.100578 from 6.5/1 to 6.0/1 and which will be used on the first Peregrine going to France.
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rn.{Mr Robinson}
  
  


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