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Correcting a design mistake regarding venting holes on brake drums for car 6-B-IV.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 84\2\  scan0359
Date  23th September 1935
  
To HHC.
X 202
Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /AFM. {Anthony F. Martindale} 12/KW. 23.9.35.

Brake Drums for 6-B-IV.

The drums and end plates for 6-B-IV have been detailed by the designers as having venting holes.
This is a mistake.

Will you please see that this car goes to France without these holes open.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /A.F.Martindale.
  
  
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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