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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).
Urgently requesting details for various steering, aero, and oil relay components.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 67\4\  scan0152
Date  9th August 1926
  
X8430

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

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}3/LG9. 8. 26.
X8430
X1685

We are urgently requiring the following details and should be obliged if you could expedite them as far as possible.

STEERING.
Modified cross steering tube recently detailed by the D.O. (Expl. job only).
Castor pivots.
Pivots to give vertical king pin and centre point with disc wheels.
Pivots with roller bearing at the top.
New type front axle.
BY's coupled inertia-damper latest scheme.

AERO.
Adaptor to fit on Condor relief valve (sketches handed over about July 20th.)

OIL RELAY.
A second complete relay to LeC.2242.
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Also we are anxious to obtain the unit testing rig as soon as possible as we have a number of experiments which are held up until this is running.

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


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