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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).
Telegram from New York discussing a comparison between pancake and cylinder head engine designs.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\2\  img162
Date  9th March 1934
  
ROLLS-ROYCE LTD.
TELEGRAM RECEIVED BY TELEPHONE.

RR. (44A. 1/2 BKS.) (45339-10-2-33) S.9720/2
U.S.A.
Stamp: MD 9 MAR 1934

Time Received: 9.20
Date: 9.3.34
To: Roycar
By: Osd
from: New York

Message Body:
Hives tangible comparison our pancake with cylinder head fundamentally hardly inferior to offer little for detonation from it but advantages better volumetric and lower fox

FROM:

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