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).
Experimental plug tests on service cars to study plug deterioration.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\5\ scan0003 | |
| Date | 22th February 1940 | |
| COPY. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/TAS.{T. Allan Swinden} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} c. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/RC.{R. Childs} Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}5/ML.22.2.40. EXPERIMENTAL PLUG TESTS ON SERVICE CARS. In order to get the plug deterioration which we are after on the service cars it will be necessary to subject their carburation to the same degree of weakness as we are now running on 12.B.V. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||