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Answering a query about tipping shoe specification and linings containing lead.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 89\4\  scan0103
Date  16th June 1937
  
To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
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Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 1/AP.16.6.37
B.93.HM. {Capt. W. Hallam - Head Repairs} - Mr.J.W.Howlett.
This answers the query as to whether Howlett's car was to the tipping shoe specification. We are pushing on with the lining containing lead used in U.S.A.
Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
Attached report
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} 2/AP.16.6.37.
  
  
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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