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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).
Cablegram reporting on the successful resolution of bearing difficulties following a satisfactory test.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\1\  img393
Date  17th January 1949
  
Form No. 6.
WESTERN UNION
(THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY)
CABLEGRAM
BIRMINGHAM
1. BROAD ST.{Capt. P. R. Strong} CHAMBERS
TELEPHONE: CENTRAL 2854.
TELEX: CENTRAL 2650.
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH Co., Ld. CANADIAN NATIONAL TELEGRAPHS.
334 FLL 18 AM 9 44
BMMR43 INDIANAPOLIS IND 129 1/49 17
NLT HIVES ROYCAR DERBY
HIVES ESQ
MESSERS ROLLS ROYCE CO LTD
DERBY
FEEL CONFIDENT BEARING DIFFICULTIES SOLVED STOP FURTHER SATISFACTORY TEST SATURDAY SEVENTY THIRTY PLAIN BEARINGS MODIFIED LUBRICATION CONSISTING EIGHT OIL HOLES ONE EIGHTH DIAMETER STOP COMPLETED TWENTY MINUTES THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED REVOLUTIONS OIL TEMPERATURE NINETY CENTIGRADE SEVENTY POUNDS PRESSURE BEARING CONDITION GOOD STOP NEXT PROPOSE FITTING
  
  


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