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Numbered list of vehicle component modifications and experimental updates.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\1\  scan0116
Date  22th May 1936
  
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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 5/KW.22.5.36.

(4) Aluminium brake drums with lever arrangement to avoid jaggors.
(5) Modified and simplified exhaust system.
(6) Better rear axle pinion mounting.
(7) Lightened road springs.
(8) Experimental front roll rod. 3 1/2" Defln front springs
(9) Thin plate battery.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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