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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).
Secret memo chasing a response about potential new engine failure points and lamenting a decline in the experimental department's spirit.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 29\3\  Scan117
Date  7th January 1924
  
X788
To Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from CJ.
S E C R E T.
CJ12/E7.1.24.
X.9770 X.180 X.788.
I do not understand why I have had no reply to my memo. asking what parts of the new engine are likely to fail.
It seems to me that in the Expl: Dept: the spirit, which years ago enabled the Works to turn out a special engine for the 2,000 miles trial of the R.A.C. in a very short time, has been replaced by one which endeavours to lay down that nothing new can be done except over a very prolonged period.
EJ.
  
  


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