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Requesting a Phantom Trials car to act as a standard for frame jellying and booming tests.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 65\4\  scan0133
Date  6th March 1929
  
To CWB. from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
c. to Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}

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We telephoned you this afternoon suggesting that you send to Derby for a few days a Phantom Trials car fitted with a covered body. We have been working on the problems connected with the SS. {S. Smith} frame jellying and booming and we should like a known standard to compare our results with.

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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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