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Modification to a Zenith filter to resolve an issue with trapped air after cleaning.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 44\1\  Scan113
Date  5th April 1923 guessed
  
contd :-
-5-
if broken, will prevent the running of the car. We found that after cleaning the Zenith filter, a certain amount of the air was trapped in the system. We have incorporated a few small breathing holes indicated in the sketch attached, which have overcome this trouble.

Attached to this report are micro-photographs
of :-
(a) Fluff actually extracted from jet.
(b) Standard filter gauze.
(c) Samples that has passed through std. filter.
(d) Ditto - per Zenith.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /W.A.Robotham.
  
  
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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