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The cause of engines running backwards and the differences between the Phantom and Silver Ghost models.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 66\2\  scan0199
Date  22th June 1926 guessed
  
contd :-

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With regard to the engine running backwards - and sometimes continuing several cycles - it is probable that when so doing it obtains its charge from the exhaust system which has been expelled there before the engine speed fell sufficiently low to start self igniting.

Having obtained the above insight into the cause of the trouble, we are endeavouring to determine which factor, or factors, explain the difference between the Phantom and Silver Ghost(1907 40/50 historic RAC 15,000 miles trial).

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /A. C. Lovesey.
  
  
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).


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