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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 to modify a Bentley Cylinder Head to restore original combustion space capacity.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 86\1\  scan0138
Date  5th March 1935
  
To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}
x219
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Mths.{Reg Matthews}4/KW.5.3.35.

Bentley Cylinder Head to LeC.3662.

Will you please modify the trepanning round the inlet valves of this head to EX.16041.

The head will require machining in the face to bring back the capacity of each combustion space to the original 91.0 c.c's.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/R.Matthews.
  
  


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