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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).
The repair of a dynamo fuse and riding control on a Trials Car.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 89\1\  scan0228
Date  5th January 1938
  
W/S Ox.
c to Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
261.
Ha/WT3/MW6.1.38.
Dictated 5.1.38.

Richard Summers Esq.
Re: Chassis No.3-CP-10 Ph.III Trials Car.

In reply to your Cx{Major Len W. Cox - Advertising Manager}4/KW7 1.38. the dynamo armature fuse had blown and we replaced this with another fuse and the dynamo charge was then

With regard to the riding control, this was inoperative owing to a lever at the bottom of the steering column control having toggled over centre.

It is the old Bowden cable control type and we dismantled this, re-sweated a bracket which holds the cable to the frame and re-set the controls correctly. The riding control then worked quite normally.

Ha/WT.
  
  


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