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 calibrate an L.H. S.S. Oil Level Indicator from British to American gallons.
Identifier | ExFiles\Box 19\3\ Scan315 | |
Date | 2nd May 1930 | |
To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} C.W.D/W.L. BY/CS5/IG.2.5.30. L.H. S.S. - Oil Level Indicator - Sec:5204. Will you please have the above calibrated to correspond with American gallons instead of British, and kindly advise us of the actual graduations as in memo: Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/AJL1/LG.9.4.29, so that we can instruct Indicator to suit. British gallon - 277.27 cu: ins. American gallon - 231 cu: ins. BY/CS. | ||