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On the testing and design of a simplified automatic starter switch for 40/50, J.3, and Peregrine models.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 168a\2\  img074
Date  6th June 1932
  
X6139
E. {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} From Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.
c. to Sy.
c. to WOr. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.1/UA.6.6.32.

40/50, J. {Mr Johnson W.M.} 3. AND PEREGRINEExperimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine AUTOMATIC STARTER
SWITCH.

We have been testing on Expl. Chassis and on Sy's car 55-GX automatic starter switches with the teazer relay and hold off coil portion out of action. A 10,000 mile test is also in progress of such an arrangement on 19-K. {Mr Kilner}

R has agreed to this scheme which simplifies the starter system considerably and results in a much less expensive relay switch.

We should be glad therefore if you will arrange for a new switch to be designed and instructed consisting of a main starter relay switch only.

This switch will be required and would be suitable for all our sequence starters on 40/50, J. {Mr Johnson W.M.} 3. and PeregrineExperimental Bentley car never produced / Aero Engine, as there will not be much difference in the main starting currents of either owing to the efficiency being smaller with the smaller size motors.

HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Wst.
  
  
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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