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).
Minutes of a meeting regarding single-cylinder engine work and testing procedures.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 133\2\ scan0190 | |
| Date | 29th November 1935 | |
| 21129 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead}1/GB.29.11.35. Copies to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smith, Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wd{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead}/Edwards. E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} E/Psn. CAR SINGLE CYLINDER WORK. Minutes of Meeting held on 25th Nov. 1935. Present :- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Smith. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead}/Edwards. E/Psn.. The meeting was the first of a series to be held fortnightly to review Single Cylinder Car work, design and tests, and its relation to the 6 or 12 cylinder engine results. Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} defined the basic conditions of comparison with the complete engines and Wd.{Mr Wood/Mr Whitehead} is to arrange to do - (1) Motoring loss tests of standard engines on a swinging field dynamometer, (2) Future single cylinder testing at induction pipe depressions corresponding to the complete engine, (3) To establish a criterion for slow running r.p.m. on the single cylinder units, (4) Measure motoring losses on the single cylinder units as a standard routine, (5) Measure air consumptions on single cylinder units as a standard routine. Smith is to obtain air consumptions of standard car engines. (4) is possible now that the Universal Units are provided with swinging field dynamometers and a special set up can be arranged for the Rudge Whitworth Unit and the car engines. (5) is now standard practice. | ||