Telegram reporting a broken piston during a morning run.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 82\1\ scan0053 | |
| Date | 24th March 1938 | |
| X4553a POST OFFICE TELEGRAPHS. CONFIRMATION TIME OF RECEIPT 4.29 M Office Stamp: DERBY 23 * JY * 23 To. 1320 By time date /280 CL DS 1510 23 CHATEAUROUX(French test region) 15 HIVES ROYCAR DERBY = NUMBER FIVE PISTON BROKEN DURING MORNINGS RUN FRACTURE SIMILAR TO SIX = HANCOCK + RECEIVED MAR 24 1938 Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} R | ||
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).