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 modify a high speed dynamo rig to test aero battery ignition dynamos for Merlin ExE and Vulture engines.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 167\2\ img018 | |
| Date | 3rd March 1937 | |
| To EJJ. 6103 Lr{Mr Ellor}/Wst.14/JH.3.3.37. Will you please arrange to modify one of our high speed dynamo rigs in the Electrical Laboratory, so as to make it suitable for driving a small aero battery ignition dynamos we are now testing. This conversion is urgently required as we are anxious to carry out unit tests with these units which are proposed for the Merlin ExE and Vulture engines. Lr{Mr Ellor}/Wst. Handwritten notes: CAP. CB EH 20/3/37 V.{VIENNA} sending designer down to lab. first thing next week. | ||