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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 failure of a Goshawk original type front axle due to a low factor of safety.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 49\4\  Scan124
Date  1st January 1922
  
X.4263

Extract from hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}1/LG23.1.22. X.4219

Front axle. X.4263

We have had one of the Goshawk original type front axles break in the centre between the two front springs. This shows there is a very little factor of safety on this section with the old axle.

hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
  
  


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