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).
Testing a modified hard drawn brass pivot pin for the battery ignition distributor.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\2\ scan0233 | |
| Date | 7th February 1934 | |
| WST 86118 To DY.{F R Danby} from E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey}1/HP.7.2.34. c. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst. re Battery Ignition Distributor Pivot Pin. With reference to Sft.{Mr Swift}6/BH.6.2.34, we should be glad if you will instruct the hard drawn brass pivot pin as shewn on WKS.104 for the 10,000 miles 20/25 HP. test car 21-G-IV.in conjunction with the Tufnol bush. Will Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wst arrange to get this modification running on a bench endurance test, and also equip some experimental cars with it in order to obtain some experience on it quickly. E/Lid.{A. J. Lidsey} | ||