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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).
New scheme for jacking up the rear axle, which is an improvement on a previous design.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 139\2\  scan0212
Date  25th February 1935
  
Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
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BY.8/G.25.2.35.

Attached please find the new scheme for
jacking up the rear axle which is an improvement upon a
similar scheme submitted by Mr. Bramley Moore to General
Motors and afterwards adopted by Vauxhall.

The Vauxhall scheme was merely an extended
shackle link on to which the jack abutted.

BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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