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 detail and produce a modified induction pipe for a High Power Bentley.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 85\4\ scan0157 | |
| Date | 5th March 1936 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x208 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}16/KW.5.3.36. High Power Bentley. Will you please detail and produce an induction pipe as follows :- Main dimensions as Ex.20937, but modified as follows - To take 3 carburettors, these to be between cylinders 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 and 6. These carburettors to be 1 5/8 S.U.'s (to be supplied by Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CTS{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}). The pipe should be separated into 3 sections, to split between cylinders 2 and 3 - 4 and 5. We would like to give details of hot-spots when you get this on the drawing board, as we are just completing tests on this section. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/C.T.Salt. | ||