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).
Letter to The S.U. Company Ltd. regarding a seized steel skirted piston during testing.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 148\3\ scan0110 | |
| Date | 29th October 1935 | |
| x1256 Exptl. Dept. HS{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}24/KW. 29th October,1935. C.T. Skinner, Esq., The S.U. Company Ltd., East Works, Adderley Park, Birmingham 8. Dear Mr. Skinner, We have run the steel skirted pistons and have seized one up. We cannot continue the tests because we sent the spare steel skirted pistons we had back to your Company to have some modifications carried out which we were told would only take 3 days but they have not yet been returned. After the long delay which took place before we got hold of these pistons, we should like to get along with the test now that they have been produced, and shall be glad if you will let us have the others back as soon as possible. We think the seizure may have been due to insufficient clearance and I am proposing to be rather more generous in this respect on the next run. We note your remarks re the pressure pump diaphragms and hope that all the diaphragms we are receiving at present are being treated in this way. Yours sincerely, FOR ROLLS-ROYCE LIMITED. | ||