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).
Request for findings on a vaporizer test, both without the hot throttle and using hot water circulation.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 75\2\ scan0311 | |
Date | 12th September 1921 | |
contd. -3- OY3/G12.9;21. have every opportunity to get on the walls before they reach the cylinder. Will you please try the vaporizer without the hot throttle and let us know your findings. OY. P.S. We would also like to hear what results you get with the vaporizer scheme without exhaust heated hot throttle, but with hot water circulating round the throttle only to prevent it freezing, and with the water cut off from the carburetter body itself, where we believe it does no good whatever with present-day gasoline. R.R. 2358 100 (T) (S.H. 798. 10-12-20) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2948 | ||