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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).
Laboratory report detailing the hardness test results for broken spring plates.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 16\7\  Scan075
Date  4th July 1928
  
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Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Mr.Robotham.
H13/EA4.7.28.
R152.
Laboratory.

Re Pieces of Broken Spring Plates submitted for hardness tests today.

We understand that the above pieces were from the bottom plates of the springs, the breakage of these being an unusual occurrence.
The pieces were tested near the fracture, both at the edge and in the centre of the plate:-

Lab. Reference No. Edge. Centre.
1 401 388
2 415 388
3 415 415
4 415 415

H1. HE
  
  


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