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The complexities of wiring and earth connections, advocating for a double wiring system, especially for ship work.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 168b\2\  img009
Date  9th June 1919
  
Contd. -2- R2/G9.6.19.

voltage used is much higher, and the wiring and earth connections are so enormously complicated, and subject to sea water, that one would conceive that a double system of wiring (at least part) would soon be substituted for the earth connections.

I always used the double wiring arrangement on ship work that was done by the compeny I was with in quite the early days of 188..

R. {Sir Henry Royce}
  
  
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).


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