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).
Complaints of a suction pipe knocking in the Phantom III petrol tank and the proposed brass pressing solution.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 95\4\ scan0202 | |
Date | 29th January 1936 | |
To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} Copy to Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} x35 E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}1/MN.29.1.36. R A Bowering. file Phantom III Petrol Tank. We have received complaints that the suction pipe dithers at its natural frequency causing it to knock against the anti-surge tower on occasions. We send herewith LeC 4944 showing a small thin brass pressing which will steady the tube in the mouth of the anti-surge tower. Particulars have been given to the Experimental Dept. of this feature, and they have fitted it to a tank which they were about to build up for a car. E/Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Att: LeC.4944. | ||