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).
Letter to L.P. Saunders of General Motors discussing a paper on cooling system practice and design.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 149a\3\ scan0221 | |
| Date | 27th April 1938 | |
| 1278. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Std.9/MH.{M. Huckerby} 27th. April 1938. Dictated 25.4.38. Mr.L.P.Saunders, The Harrison Radiator Division General Motors Corporation, Lockport, New York, U.S.A. Dear Mr.Saunders, Many thanks for your letter of 7th. inst. - am only too pleased to forward you a copy of the paper in question. Actually I proposed to do so in any case, but the duplicate copies of same have only been available within the last few days. Am afraid that this paper is only a general survey of cooling system practice and does not contain any particularly new or revolutionary ideas - in fact it is based largely on experience of orthodox cooling systems, and information which you have been good enough to supply. In the latter connection I must confess to having included one or two facts and statements taken verbatim from your Chicago paper of which I have a copy, and trust that you will pardon this plagiarism. Was very interested in your remarks about the present finality of cooling system design, at least until the mechanical specification of the car as a whole is altered. As mentioned in my paper over here, we do not see any justification at the moment for departure from the orthodox water cooled system - with the high ratio of radiator frontal area to engine size on British cars, there is even less inducement to change to any new system than in the U.S.A. we have done a little work with a pressure cooled system here, but I am afraid that we have not really tackled the job very seriously. Would appreciate hearing from you as to any new ideas in the cooling system line if and when these are disclosable. | ||