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).
Request to construct and fit a different cam and throttle lever arrangement for an automatic idling device.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 156\1\ scan0056 | |
| Date | 13th December 1934 | |
| To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X4505 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.21/KW.13.12.34. Automatic Idling Device, LeC.4072. We wish to try a different arrangement of cam and throttle lever from that shown on above LeC, to prevent the throttle spring causing the eccentric to reverse. Will you therefore please have a cam and throttle lever constructed to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1653 and Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1657 respectively and fit this throttle lever to the carburetter which we will hand to you. attached. Blue prints of Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1653 and Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1656/ Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std. | ||