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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).
Note on the assembly and testing of commutator plates, with a warning to avoid repeating past manufacturing errors.

Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\I\July1922\  Scan45
Date  6th August 1919
  
R.R. 235 a (100 T) (S.F. 816. 6-8-19) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2460

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so that the plates shall fly out and settle themselves before the final finish to the commutator is done.
Such a test would be useful to find out whether the plates were sufficiently tight in the process of manu-facture, care being taken not to knock any individual plate down while making the connections.
It will be remembered that large commutators often take a long time before the plates settle in their final position, at least they did so in the old days, when insufficient heat and pressure were used in their assembly. Kindly avoid history repeating itself.

R.{Sir Henry Royce}
  
  


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