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Test report detailing a modification to a gilled cooler fitting on Kestrel engines to resolve a 'kink' issue.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 10\2\  02-page58
Date  31th August 1939
  
ZA.6/P/AS.H.SC.
AHW/PJ
31.8.39.

MR. WILLIAM CHILTERN.

TEST REPORT

When fitting the gilled cooler in the exhaust side on certain record type Kestrel(Aero Engine) engines a slight "kink" is found to be too close to the banjo.

The modification called for on Drawing No. D.39830 is to be called for, and the part No. on the Drawing updated to F.R.2711. On the one off job, an intercooler tube which is available as an amendment request.

AH.
  
  
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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