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Note on how to handle a complaint of slipping under abnormal driving conditions during an experimental test.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 129\4\  scan0124
Date  8th January 1938
  
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Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /NRC. {N. R. Chandler} 8/JH.8.1.38.

If it is demonstrated that a reasonably quick pick up at say 30 m.p.h. can be obtained as in the first part of the experimental test a complaint of slipping under abnormal conditions which should never exist, even in the hands of a bad driver, should be turned down.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /NRC. {N. R. Chandler}
  
  
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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