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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).
Night letter cablegram to Gleasons in Rochester, NY, querying the successful dynamometer testing of an existing ring gear.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 111\4\  scan0069
Date  29th September 1938
  
BO2
Rn{Mr Robinson} Kay
NLT.
GLEASONS, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, U.S.A.

YOUR CABLE ABOUT GEARS OVERLOADED
RECEIVED STOP WHY DO EXISTING
650 OFFSET EIGHT AND HALF
INCH RING GEAR WITHSTAND SUCCESSFULLY
SIMILAR DYNAMOMETER TEST STOP WHAT
  
  


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