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Car component failures during testing, with a recommendation to proceed with manufacturing.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 46\2\  Scan108
Date  4th April 1932 guessed
  
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considering the intense shocks to which
it is being subjected.
We have already seen one car with
a broken front wheel and two with
broken steering mechanism. Also a car
I looked at in the garage yesterday
had bent its cross steering levers
and put the wheels out of track. I
mention these things to show that the
roads out here are bad enough to give
a very severe testing of the parts and
we must not be unduly alarmed if some-
thing does go wrong.
On the whole I regard matters as
satisfactory excepting details referred
to, and I see no reason why manufacture
should not proceed.
Any slight alterations necessary
could easily be made during manufacture.

Hy. {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer}
  
  
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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