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).
Cracked front exhaust box, with a hand-drawn diagram illustrating the failure.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 11\3\ 03-page406 | |
| Date | 8th July 1931 guessed | |
| 87941. To Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} " From GWH.{George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} Hotel de France, Chateauroux, Indre, France. 25-EX. The front exhaust box, made of mild steel, has cracked at the joint of the down pipe and at the joint of the intermediate pipe. It has also bulged out at one end. We are telegraphing you for a new unit to be sent out. The front silencer stay has also crumbled up. This is the weak type and should not have been fitted. G.W.H. G W Hancock [Text from diagram] both sides Cracked on the inside | ||