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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).
Noisy Watford EW6 magnetos, with an attached letter from North & Sons.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 65\3\  scan0228
Date  24th March 1928
  
To BY.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from EFC.
c. Mx.{John H Maddocks - Chief Proving Officer}
X7791
EFC1/T24.3.28.
WATFORD EW6. MAGNETOS.
Herewith we attach copy of a letter received from Messrs. North & Sons in answer to ours EFC7/T. 14.3.28 which we have sent to you for your perusal.
I do not know whether anye other experiments of the removal and replacement of the gear wheel have been made by us but experimentsin this direction might give us further information, it being understood that a number of magnetos being refeived on production have become noisy after running for some time.
Letter from Norths dated 23.3.28, attached.
EFC.
  
  


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