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Reliability of electrical components like fuses and graphite parts, referencing a prior committee report.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 61\2\  scan0455
Date  2nd July 1921
  
RIO/G2.7.21. -2- Contd.

by Lucas were wearing badly. Apparently the ones to be supplied in future are Le Carbone electrical graphite marked E.G.O. What is the make and brand of those that have failed ?

Are the fuses and fuse holders reliable ?

If they are unreliable, it is no use continuing to put them on cars. To carry two spare fuse holders already loaded, inside the switchbox, is not a cure for a defective piece of apparatus. I cannot understand this, and if this was agreed by our Committee (see report June 22nd.) my interpretation is either incorrect, or we did wrong to agree.


R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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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