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Continuing tests with a 12' frame and a new 9' frame for improved stiffness.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 75\3\  scan0239
Date  14th August 1918
  
(2)

the fact that a great portion of the surface of the frame
is used up by brackets.

In the meantime, we are continuing the tests
with the 12" frame and are having a 9" frame made also,
which will give nearly twice the stiffness for about
the same weight.

[Watermark text, reversed]
DICKINSON BOND
1804
MADE AT CROXLEY

[Printed text at bottom edge]
R. {Sir Henry Royce} R. {Sir Henry Royce} M30A (100 ff) (X 796. 14.8.18) O 2469
  
  
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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