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Record card for tests on a Whittle fan belt.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 55\2\  Scan003
Date  21th February 1912
  
X493 Section. 1000
DESCRIPTION:- Whittle fan belt.

Date sheet from office.
Date Works instruction.
Reported T.D. office.

Date received.
Material received.
Reported to office.

First Column:
Date. Miles. Report.
Instruction from T.C. meeting 2067.
24/11/11 | 2 received for testing.
27/11/11 | Wait test a report running on 1718.
4/12/11 | 180 | Running satisfactorily
6/12/11 | 280 | "
13/12/11 (11-12-11) | Testing on 1718 & 1600. T.C. 97 - To be reviewed in 2 months time.

Second Column:
Date. Miles. Report.
13/10/11 | T.C.-98. Of Edohan move. Having to run on all trials cars.
29/12/11 | Waiting for more belts.
11/1/12
14/1/12 | 6 Belts received. 1 fitted to 1731, 1909, 1961. 1 despatched on 1600 trial. Running OK must be well made.
6/2
21/2/12 | Testing for noisy.
  
  
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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