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Requesting a car for clutch tests and to improve oil consumption, with a note of thanks regarding a Leica.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 88\2\  scan0137
Date  9th November 1935
  
To Lp. {Mr Lappin}

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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 11/KW.9.11.35.

We want your car for clutch tests, also to try and improve the oil consumption. We will lend you something in exchange. We are doing our best to get you a big bore unit.

Many thanks for the trouble you have taken over the Leica.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief 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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