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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).
Suggestion to hold production of the 20-HP Wheelcase due to a rattling issue.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 56\3\  Scan064
Date  19th April 1932
  
X5170.

To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from E .
c. Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

E/JNR.{Charles L. Jenner}1/HP.19.4.32.

20-HP. Wheelcase.

We suggest that the production of wheelcases should be held up, the reason being that with the heavier valve springs and the low inertia damper we have a tendency to rattles which possibly will mean that we shall have to fit a brake on the dynamo pinion.

E/JNR.{Charles L. Jenner}
  
  


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