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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).
Laboratory analysis of the material composition of a broken steering wheel.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 154\3\  scan0136
Date  11th July 1922 guessed
  
Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

X4557
H13/EF17722
Laboratory

Re Broken Steering Wheel.

Analysis:-

Copper----------2.52%
Zinc------------7.30%
Iron------------0.75%
Manganese-------Trace
Magnesium-------0.06%

A sand cast would naturally be soft when of the above composition

HC H1.
  
  


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