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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).
Requesting an examination of a car's gearbox due to issues with the top gear sticking in mesh or jumping out.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 94\2\  scan0200
Date  8th April 1937
  
To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}
328
Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Smth.15/JH.8.4.37.
37-EX.
When this car comes into the shop will you please examine the gearbox. Top gear sticks in mesh badly on some occasions, and in others it jumps out. We suspect the top speed dogs are too tight.
Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Smth.
  
  


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