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Condition report on a broken lower pivot bearing and a front crossmember assembly.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 9\5\  05-page203
Date  4th May 1938
  
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HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /LK. {L. King} 1/VS. {J. Vickers} 4.5.38.

On the lower pivot bearing the flange has broken away from the outer race GW.1961 (see photograph attached); the outer race was manufactured by Messrs. Hoffmann.

The front crossmember assembled to FW.1088 - details fitted to this assembly, including lower triangle lever fulcrum pins and needle roller bearings, are all in good condition.

HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /L. King.
  
  
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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