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Letter confirming a telegram exchange about the correct fitting of step rings, with a supporting sketch.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 71\4\  scan0170
Date  28th April 1925
  
Hotel de France,
Chateauroux(French test region). Indre.
France.

GWH. {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} 2/Crn.28.4.25.

To: "HS {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} "
From: G.W.Hancock.

We beg to confirm your wire of yesterday's
date, reading :-

Wire which way up step rings were fitted Stop Change oil
in steering box to very thick gear oil - Hives.

to which we replied :-

Rings were fitted with recess at top - Hancock.

as per scketch here-under :-

G.W. Hancock.
  
  
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).


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