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Hand-drawn sketch illustrating a mechanical failure of a pin and stud assembly.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\4\  scan0008
Date  19th October 1935 guessed
  
This nut was up to the end of the thread.
This pin had been sheared. allowing the stud to unscrew.
  
  
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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