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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).
Secret memo detailing drawings for .303 Browning Guns in Spitfire & Hurricane wings.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 176\1\  img118
Date  29th November 1940
  
SECRET.

To Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}
c. to Ve.
c. to Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH

re .303 Browning Guns in Spitfire & Hurricane Wings.

Some while ago we had made full scale drawings of the gun bays, the gun mountings and the ammunition boxes of the wings of both the Spitfire & Hurricane Fighters.

The drawings made were as given below -

✓PL.294 (8 sheets) Sections of wing. Hurricane.
✓PL.295 (1 sheet) Gun Mounting. Hurricane.
✓PL.296 (1 sheet) Ammunition box Hurricane.
✓PL.297 (10 sheets) Sections of Wing Spitfire.
✓PL.298 (3 sheets) Gun Brackets. Spitfire.
✓PL.299 (Sheets 1 & 3) Ammunition boxes Spitfire.

Will Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH. accept the originals attached herewith and issue prints to Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork} Ve. Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/HH. and Ashby.

We have sent to Ve. some while ago a drawing of the Gun Mounting in the Spitfire wing for a .500 ins. Browning Gun.

Ev.{Ivan Evernden - coachwork}
  
  


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