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).
10,000-mile bench test of an up-to-date standard ignition distributor with an extra ventilation scheme.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\2\ scan0028 | |
| Date | 2nd February 1926 | |
| 50 per 100 BKS) (SH57. 29-6-20.) MP 224358 ROLLS-ROYCE LTD. INSTRUCTIONS. To E.F.B. Date: 2 - 2 - 1926 Order No. WB{Mr Brazier/Mr Bell}74 Customer's No. X8690 10,000 mile bench test of up-to-date standard R.R. ignition distributor incorporating extra ventilation scheme A complete test has now been carried out on the above distributor with distinctly satisfactory results. The particular object of the test was to confirm that the extra ventilation of the distributor head, with the addition also of a hole underneath the contact breaker points, reduced consider-ably the corrosive effect due to the production of nitric fumes. An examination of the distributor after the run proved Signed coutch This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work. | ||