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Propeller shaft fouling an aluminum temporary plate on a cross member.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 101\1\  scan0240
Date  27th April 1936
  
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HOTEL DE FRANCE,
CHATEAUROUX(French test region), Indre.
France.

GWH {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} /4/JAB. 27th April 1936

To. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
From. G.W.H.

22. G.V.

The propellor shaft has fouled the aluminum tempary plate fitted on the third cross member which represented the old type cross member. It has bulged it downwards approximately a quarter of an inch on the rebound. This information I believe you require.

[Signature]
G.W.H.
  
  
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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