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Letter providing feedback on a new Colorstat's performance and its effect on engine temperature.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 89\3\  scan0073
Date  14th January 1936
  
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7 The Crescent,
Taunton.

14. 1. 36 your ref:- Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Std.q/K.W.

Dear Sirs. For the attention of Mr C.S. Steadman.

Referring to your letter of the 20th ult the new Colorstat is a vast improvement on the one which I returned to you in that, generally speaking, the temperature of the engine is now raised to between 75° and 78° Cent. whereas before, even with the available adjustment so adjusted that the connections between Colorstat and shutters were in tension when everything was cold, barely 70° was the average under
  
  
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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