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Modification to the Rear Axle Spring Plate after a design failure on a car that crossed Africa.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 95\4\  scan0089
Date  14th April 1937
  
342
Byg is putting this on production.
BY:
c. Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /Les. HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}
E {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} /JNR. {Charles L. Jenner} 2/HP.14.4.37.
Rear Axle Spring Plate.
We send you herewith:-
LeC.5622 showing a bigger bolt fitted to the clamp which holds in position the double ended ball pin.
We understand that the existing design failed on the car which crossed the African Continent.
E {Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer} /JNR. {Charles L. Jenner}
  
  
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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