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Request for flexible tubing to test a mechanical tyre pump, with a suggestion to source it from Dunlops.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 27\4\  Scan023
Date  24th March 1921
  
To Ms. from Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

X 3035

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} 3/LG24.3.21.

MECHANICAL TYRE PUMP TUBING.

We require for testing the R.R. mechanical tyre pump some flexible tubing. This tubing should be strong enough to stand a pressure of 120 lbs. We suggest that you might get this from people like Dunlops who make tyre pumps.

We shall require 6 yds. of this tubing.

Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  
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