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Micro-examination report on a Rover valve spring, noting its partial decarburisation.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 127\3\  scan0150
Date  24th November 1936
  
1091
Micro-Examination Report.
M.1228.
To Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
HL1/AC.24.11.36.
Laboratory.
RE: ROVER VALVE SPRING.
(Your ref: Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /AP.16.11.36.)
This is not similar to the Vauxhall Spring.
It is partially decarburised, so that there is a thin network of ferrite at the surface.
H1. HE
  
  
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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