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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).
Letter discussing the successful repair of a transmission and the wish to place a formal order for subsequent work.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 89\4\  scan0233
Date  15th January 1938 guessed
  
The transmission had never lasted a long race, but after you did it it lasted for three races, then it was only a tooth off a gear box wheel and the transmission aft of the gear box is still all tight.

You were extremely kind in doing the job before for nothing, for which I was most grateful but this time I should like to place an order in the ordinary way, if you would accept it,
  
  


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