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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).
List of suggested amendments for an instruction book.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 26\2\  Scan014
Date  3rd December 1913
  
Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}/SM2/C 3.12.13.

Re Instruction Book. (contd).

handle-bars of a bicycle, firmly but not rigidly.
Page 66. strike out par. 2 starting "If forced to" and ending "the side brakes".
Page 66. Notes to driver. Collisions line 2. Between the words dumb irons - for "springs, wheels, and steering gear". At present it appears as if we expected the dumb irons to break.
Page 66, Risks line 9 strike out the words "great strains on mechanism".
Page 69. line 6. I suggest the words "Extinguish all lamps if alright" be left out. Leave it to the good sense of the driver to do this as lights should not be put out while the car is in the public street.
  
  


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