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Telegram reporting a broken piston head on engine number six.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 82\1\  scan0046
Date  18th March 1933
  
POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS.
CONFIRMATION
Office Stamp: DERBY * 18 MR 33
To: HIVES ROYCAR DERBY
Message: NUMBER SIX PISTON HEAD BROKEN AWAY AT HORIZONTAL EXPANSION SLOT STOP BORE GONROD AND CYLINDERHEAD OKAY
Sender: = ROBERTS +++
Handwritten Reference: X4553a
Transmission Details: 123 CL KLW 1015 18 CHATEAYROUX 20
  
  
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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