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Safety memo regarding exhaust gas blowback in No. 5 Test Bed (Spectre) and a request for a milk can.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 143\1\  scan0061
Date  13th March 1935
  
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To EJJ/JV.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Swdl. {Len H. Swindell} 4/KW.13.3.35.

Safety First.

No. 5 Test Bed (Spectre(Codename for Phantom III)).

There is a considerable amount of gas blowing back into the test house from the exhaust box on the outside wall. Will you please arrange to have the exhaust carried through a pipe, well clear of the petrol tanks.

Will you please order immediately a 1-gallon milk can for this Test House.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /L.H.Swindall.
  
  
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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