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Request for production parts to make the 32-EX gearbox passably quiet.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 94\2\  scan0078
Date  23th November 1936
  
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To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 6/AP.23.11.36.

32-EX. GEARBOX.

Can we get the following parts from Production in order to make this gearbox passable. At present it is impossibly noisy.

REQUIRED
Returned from RHC. {R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer} for 32-EX.Gearbox.

1st. motion shaft.
3rd. motion shaft.
New continuous C/M. 3rd. and 2nd. speed gears.
Both halves of casting.
Rear coupling.

Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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