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).
Use of stellited silchrome valves for a 15,000-mile test on a small bore engine.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 88\4\ scan0168 | |
| Date | 16th June 1936 | |
| X.254 To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell} Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}11/KW.16.6.36. Herewith LeC.5141. In view of your tests on the small bore engine it looks as if we are likely to be save inrunning silchrome valves, stellited, on the next 15,000 miles test. Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} | ||