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Telegram detailing a compromise to postpone production of E.A.C. four and modify the starter motor location on E.A.C. two.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 72\4\  scan0130
Date  22th February 1924
  
[text struck through] from Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}
[text struck through] - " "
Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} - " "

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Wor {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} 1/M22/2/24.

The following is copy of telegram I have received:-

" Marseille. 22/2/24.

" Wormald, Rolls-Royce, Derby, England.

" Royce agrees as compromise indefinitely to postpone production

" of E.A.C. four provided that in E.A.C. two the starter motor

" is taken off gearbox and put on engine. If you see no

" objections ask Rowledge to concentrate Wittering work. "

Wor. {Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}
  
  
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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