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Requesting the return of a Wraith speedometer for recalibration due to a new rear axle ratio.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 165\2\  img178
Date  16th June 1938
  
To HPS {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} /WST. from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /RC. {R. Childs}
c. RC {R. Childs} /CAP.

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Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /RC. {R. Childs} 8/MH. {M. Huckerby} 16.6.38.

RE WRAITH SPEEDOMETER.

Will you please arrange for the return to the makers of a Wraith A.T. speedometer No.S.919 for alteration to suit the new rear axle ratio of 8/34. This means that the calibration of the instrument must be altered from its present value of 776 revs-per-mile to 732 revs-per-mile.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /RC. {R. Childs}
  
  
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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