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Potential cause of a magneto failure due to engine cleaning methods.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 65\3\  scan0331
Date  7th November 1928
  
EEC. from GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}

X7791

7.11.28

Re your EFCL/T7.11.28.

I personally have not seen the magneto referred to and consequently cannot form an opinion of the cause of the failure. I am inclined to agree that it may have been caused by swabbing the engine down with petrol and paraffin. This has been overdone and complained of by my self.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux}
  
  
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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