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Clarifying the requirement for a specific union to suit an olive joint for the damper unit control pipe.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\1\  scan0170
Date  27th August 1936
  
25, Rue Gide,
Levallois-Perret.
Seine. France.

LES
GWH {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} /5/JAB. 27th August 1936.

To. Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Attention Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les.

6. B. IV.

Your memo Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les.I7/KW.2I.8.36. received.

It is evident that my memo of the 19th August has misread.

A coiled copper pipe is already fitted to the damper unit control but the union on the control unit is a spherical joint similar to all oil pipes. We require a union to suit the olive joint.

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G.W.H.
  
  
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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