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Loose Goshawk ballast resistance terminal and a suggestion to include spring washers.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 54\5\  Scan190
Date  29th March 1922
  
To Hy. {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} from EFC. {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer}
c. to Hy {Tom Haldenby - Plant Engineer} /WER.

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EFC {E. Fowler Clarke - Electrical Engineer} 5/T29.3.22.

RE GOSHAWK(Aero Engine)(Codename for 20HP Car / Aero Engine after Kestrel(Aero Engine)) BALLAST RESISTANCE.

During Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 's run across France with 4 Gos.II. for Mr. Royce, one of the ballast resistance terminals came loose.

Does the arrangement drawing of this call for spring washers under the terminal nuts ? If not, these should be included.

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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