Replacement options for a damaged copper pipe and issues with a rear shock damper lever.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 83\1\ scan0151 | |
| Date | 17th August 1936 | |
| X200a G.W. Hancock Esq., Hotel de France, Chateauroux(French test region), Indre, FRANCE. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les.14/KW.17.8.36. 6-B-IV. In order to save cost we are still trying to use a copper tube for the connection from the shock damper governor unit to the frame. The one on B-56-BN {W.O. Bentley / Mr Barrington} got rather badly damaged by stones, but it was a badly shaped piping. I understand there is a different type now on 6-B-IV and that the fitting shop have just sent you 2 more variations. It would be a good thing if you could run the most sensible shaped pipe. 22-G-V. {VIENNA} With regard to the O.S. rear shock damper lever which has the inner bearing .004" under size, I sent a new lever and bushes to Paris. The complete damper which I had intended to send to you caused trouble by the casing being oversize for the bushes, owing to a considerable number of changing of bushes. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les. | ||
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