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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).
Design sketch and explanation for an umbrella rotor concerning air circulation.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 163\7\  img095
Date  24th February 1927 guessed
  
-3- Contd.

This umbrella rotor looks more like a scheme than an accident made with the object of keeping up a circulation of pure air around the make and break, any gas formed at the H.T. points being carried away without mixing into the air below.

E.{Mr Elliott - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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