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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).
Instructions for casting a two cwt batch of Vanadium Aluminium Alloy into pistons and test pieces.

Identifier  Morton\M11\  img006
Date  22th November 1915
  
Mr Roney.
Mr Kesterton.

Vanadium Aluminium Alloy.

22.11.15. Mer16/L221115.

Mr Nadin now instructs that the two cwt.
of the above alloy should now be handed to Mr
Kesterton and cast up into 18 Pistons, 2 tensile
test pieces, and 2 Upton-Lewis test pieces. He
states that it is to be treated as ordinary
aluminium alloy.

Mer.
  
  


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