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 for high-pressure seamless steel tubing for a compression ignition engine job.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 27\4\ Scan237 | |
| Date | 19th February 1931 | |
| To Roy.{Sir Henry Royce} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CHP. X3035. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CHP.1/MJ.19.2.31. COMPRESSION IGNITION ENGINE. We are requiring, for the above job, some high pressure steel tubing .062" bore (and not less than .187" outside diameter), and should be obliged if you could procure some for us. The tubing must be seamless and capable of withstanding 10,000 lbs/sq.in. pressure. A piece 6 ft. long will be ample for our requirements. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/CHP. | ||