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Status report on various electrical components for a vehicle build, including magneto, cables, dynamo, and lamps.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 57\1\  Scan041
Date  1st February 1930
  
EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 1/ADL1.2.30 contd.

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Paraffin waxed paper condenser No. P.W.1. This is already on.

Watford R.W.1. magneto No.12C265. This is being tested but will be ready shortly.

Cellulose lacquered cambric covered maconite H.T. cables. These have been instructed by our EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 3/AD6.2.30. Will you please complete.

Starter Motor Section.

All standard.

Generator and Distribution Section.

Dynamo N. with 48 coil armature and trailing field pole modification. Also fitted with bakelaque insulations. This machine is quite ready with us.

Switchbox with extended armature contact. This is already incorporated in the switchbox on the car.

Non-oxidising field fuse. Mr. Allen will see to this.

Lamp Section.

Chromium plated Butler centre lamp. We are awaiting this back from Messrs. Butlers and are duly urging with C.O.

Court two-way switch. This was instructed in our EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 3/AD10.2.30.

all these items were included on the above chassis, when it left on 20/2/30. with the exception of the battery which was cancelled. EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer}
  
  
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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