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).
Meeting minutes discussing heaters, water pumps, radiators, engine mounts, and fuel consumption tests.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 159\5\ scan0107 | |
| Date | 4th December 1940 | |
| - 5 - Cont'd.{John DeLooze - Company Secretary} 27. HEATERS AND DEFROSTERS. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} will get some temperatures at different points in the body to prove that our idea of putting metal plates behind the instrument board to deflect the heat into the body of the car, is a good one. We will then get Smith's people down to have a look at it. We require a design for heater and defroster control. 28. WATER PUMPS. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Col. will see Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH. to ensure that the drawing of the new water pump is what he requires and will then get it detailed. As soon as the details are completed, we will hand them to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation} who will try and get half a dozen made. This is most important. 29. MYTH. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} will get a move on with the model maker and find out when this can be completed. 30. RADIATORS. We are going to run the Buick radiator valve. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} will get Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH. to have a look at the radiator and water outlet on 9.B.V. and see whether it is correct to the drawing for the cast-iron engine. 31. ENGINE MOUNTING FOR CAST-IRON ENGINE. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} will go over the mounting of the cast-iron engine with Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Wym.{G. Harold Whyman - Experimental Manager} to see whether it is satisfactory. 32. FUEL CONSUMPTION TESTS. It was agreed that 8.B.V. should be allocated for this job and that the first test to be made should be to fit a 4 1/4 litre B.II. cylinder head to this car and prove whether the B.V. consumption was worse than that of it's predecessor. Having established this point, and brought the B.V. up to the best we have been able to do in the past, the experiment outlined in Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/CTS.{C. Trot Salt - Carburation}3/ET.15.11.40. would be proceeded with. When the consumption on B.V's has been made as good as possible, the pieces will be fitted up on a cast-iron engine, and also on all the other Bentley cars we are running about, so that we can establish an average figure. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||