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 discussing facia boards, K-S numbers for different horsepower models, and tank calibrations.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 44\3\ Scan071 | |
| Date | 16th November 1928 | |
| Messrs.Rolls-Royce,Ltd., Date 16.11.28. Page 2 the angle of this facia board, so that we may shim the instrument correctly, which will then be delivered to them in time for the complete body. In reply to your letter of the 13th inst., (Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}6/LG), we give you hereunder our K-S numbers corresponding to your horse powers and scheme numbers. 20 h.p. N.sch.2578 - Our number K-S.175. 40/50 h.p. N.sch.2571 " " K-S.180. With regard to the 20 h.p. tank, we are proceeding at once with the calibration and fitting up of this now that the 40/50 h.p. is out of the way. We hope that you will be able to leave it with us for a few days, as the writer had hoped to instal it on the luggage carrier of his own 20 h.p. car during the early days of next week, and take one or two running tests. Would you let us have a complete drawing of the 20 h.p. tank N.sch.2578 as soon as it is avail- able? There is one point in connection with the flange to take our unit on the 20 h.p. model. We believe that it was your intention for the two con- nections to point away towards the middle of the tank, to match up with the petrol connections, in a similar | ||