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).
Note discussing tappet scuffing issues and comparing them to problems on the Wraith model.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 116\1\ scan0138 | |
Date | 1st September 1937 guessed | |
31 Whilst here Mr. Swain mentioned that they were having trouble with scuffing of bottom tappets & we told them how we had got over the trouble on Wraith, their tappet mechanism being of similar design to Wraith Attached are prints, data sheets & photographs & parts brought to Works for our examination R.{Sir Henry Royce} Matthews. | ||