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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).
Request to dismantle and examine a steering gear due to a suspected failure causing tightness.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 106\3\  scan0371
Date  18th May 1936
  
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To RHC.{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}21/JH.18.5.36.

21-G-IV. Steering.

From the feel of the above steering something appears to have failed.

Will you please dismantle the steering gear and examine for the cause of the tightness.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/FJH.{Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}
  
  


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