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Recommendation to adopt Whittle fan belts as standard due to superior longevity over Wata-Wata belts.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 55\2\  Scan006
Date  3rd June 1912
  
Mr Barrington for T.C. for belts

RE WHITTLE FAN BELTS

This is to confirm conversation I had with Mr Nadin re above to the effect that same should be adopted as standard.
Taken allround these are more satisfactory than the Wata-Wata belts.
On our Demonstration car one of these Whittle belts has been running for over 3000, whereas the Wata-Wata have to be replaced after about 1,000 miles.

E P.

X493
  
  
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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