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).
Description of the vehicle's electrical system, wiring, and dynamo.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 42\2\ Scan088 | |
| Date | 18th September 1922 guessed | |
| R In passing, it is intended that this description should be applied to catalogue work also, in which case the description should be augmented by a halftone photographic block of the part being described. (P). ELECTRICAL SYSTEM. Except for the accumulator and a few other obvious parts the whole of the electrical equipment is the manufactured by the RR. Co. and has been made with the first object of reliability, having in view simplicity and weight; great lasting quality naturally following reliability. [Handwritten note: Suggested in detail etc.] It will be understood that the RR. Co. can afford to spend more on their equipment than is possible for constructors who depend upon trade sales to makers of lower priced chassis, and it has always been the RR. belief that engineering productions can-not be too good, the most perfect being the less costly to own. For simplicity and robustness the single wire system is adopted which permits of the more substantial single contact lamps and holders being used. For the sake of easily understanding and tracing the various circuits, the installation has been made with coloured wires of the same colours shewn on the diagram of the wiring in the instruction book. The wiring is carried out in aluminium tubes and channels so as to be well protected. In connection with the head and side lamps special provision is made to support these on the wings by the standard support stays provided with the chassis, and by using these the wiring is enclosed, and invisible. (Q). DYNAMO. This has third brush control and cuts in at an extremely slow speed, giving an output which rises rapidly at first (for (10) | ||