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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).
Faults with an instrument board, front and rear doors, and Fisher ventilators.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 12\6\  06-page117
Date  4th December 1934
  
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INSTRUMENT BOARD.

This is O.K., with no signs of cracks, and the fixing is quite solid.

DOORS - FRONT.

On both front doors we have an exceptionally bad type of steel door check, so designed that when the door swings open it puts a twist on the door base, distorting the frame badly.

Both front doors have been hammering on the body pillars at the base, and on the shut-edge of the door.

The heel board to the N.S. front door has cracked away from the centre pillar screw fixing.

The fillets on the doors have worked loose, the method of fixing is by concealed nails.

DOORS - REAR.

Both doors have dropped, and are hammering at the base on the body and centre pillars, the door stops have worked loose, making rattles more apparent. On the N.S. door the hinge pillar is cracked through between the two hinges, causing the total collapse of the window frame, and allowing the door to drop three-eighths of an inch. There is no outward indication of any ill use to the door in question.

A different type of door check is used here, made of spring steel.

FISHER VENTILATORS.

These have been a failure. The winding mechanism has broken down on three of the windows and there is too much backlash in the winding mechanism of the fourth.
  
  


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