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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).
Extract discussing modifications to a Bosch ignition unit with a diagram of an umbrella-style rotor designed for air circulation.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 32\5\  Scan051
Date  17th January 1927
  
X6096
Extract from E1/M17.1.27.
X.4041.

It is over 5 years since we saw this Bosch ignition unit with governor, and while remaining the same in principle it has been modified in detail in respect of a number of interesting points which we will deal with later when we have more time.

There is one point, however, which may be of immediate interest. The rotor is formed in the shape of a complete disc -

This umbrella rotor looks more like a scheme than an accident made with the object of keeping up a circulation of pure air around the make and break, any gas formed at the H.T. points being carried away without mixing into the air below.
  
  


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