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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).
Blueprint diagram illustrating a failure where a sheared pin allowed a stud to unscrew.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\4\  scan0007
Date  18th October 1935 guessed
  
X 204-
THIS NUT WAS UP TO THE END OF THE THREAD.
THIS PIN HAD BEEN SHEARED ALLOWING THE STUD TO UNSCREW.
  
  


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