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).
Urgent modifications to a Bentley set of self-adjusting tappets.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\4\ scan0071 | |
| Date | 5th June 1934 | |
| X 254 RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} From Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}7/MA.5.6.34. We are returning the Bentley set of self adjusting tappets in order that you may carry out the following modifications. (1) The split bushes to be removed from the rockers and replaced by a plain bush drilled in the same manner as those in the 25 HP. set of self adjusting tappet rockers. (2) Existing oil holes in the rocker shaft to be blanked and redrilled to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1419. These modifications are urgently required. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/L.H.Swindall. | ||