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).
Scheme 2278 for the 20HP battery-in-frame, its testing, and a query about caulked plugs.
| Identifier | WestWitteringFiles\P\2October1926-December1926\ Scan009 | |
| Date | 8th October 1926 | |
| TO BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} FROM DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} C. to BJ. HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} ORIGINAL DA{Bernard Day - Chassis Design}1/M8.10.26. 20HP. - BATTERY IN FRAME. X5735 Herewith we send N. scheme 2278. in which we have taken the particulars of the position of the frame, the battery, shock damper, and the tie-bar bracket, from your LF.848. and adapted the horizontal stay to clear the plug hole and to give access to the inlet valve screw. We suggest that this method of attaching the battery tie should be tested on the bumping rig as soon as possible, and before going on any 10,000 miles test. With reference to your reply re. caulked plugs in the shock damper body, since there is no pressure on the bottom long drilling we should have thought that it would have been possible to make a caulked plug stand. Do you still use the caulked plug for the valve passage at the other end? DA.{Bernard Day - Chassis Design} | ||