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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 the manufacture of parts for Cadillac type automatic tappets (P.II).

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 17\6\  Scan190
Date  17th April 1934
  
To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} X7260 Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Std.21/KW.17.4.34.

Will you please have the following parts made for Cadillac type automatic tappets (P.II).

(1) A set of spacing springs for rocker shaft to Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1360.

(2) A set of eccentrics to E.84413 and E.84414, made in cast iron entirely - no white metal linings - for eccentric bearings.

(3) The rocker shafts with which we will supply you (to be run with above eccentrics) to have .001" ground off dia. and then to be copper plated to a depth of .001" and polished.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/C.S. Steadman.
  
  


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