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Failure of heater motors and a design modification by Joseph Lucas Ltd.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 137\3\  scan0063
Date  15th March 1939
  
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To Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /RD.1/B.15.3.39.

HEATER MOTORS.

We have taken up with Messrs. Joseph Lucas Ltd., the failure of two heater motors caused by the softening and collapse of the brush spring, and they informed us that they have already modified their design to provide a pigtail for this motor for the brush, which is brought out through the brush holder, and it will be sweated to the brush gear.

BY {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} /RD
  
  
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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