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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).
Requesting the return of Bentley III Girling brake plungers to New Hudson Ltd. due to a manufacturing error.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 98\3\  scan0008
Date  17th November 1937
  
To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}
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406.
Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}8/AP.17.11137.

BENTLEY III. GIRLING BRAKES.

Will you please return to New Hudson Ltd. all (except one set of 4) of the plungers GB.2198 and GB.2198.A. so that they can be correctly machined. We have modified one set for O.B.1V.

We are writing to New Hudsons pointing out their error.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/AFM.{Anthony F. Martindale}
  
  


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