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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).
Recommending cadmium plating for steel control parts and supercharger diffuser rings on aero engines to prevent rusting.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 30\6\  Scan016
Date  11th January 1928
  
To By.{R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} from Rg.{Mr Rowledge}
c. Wor.{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager} Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
X1360
Rel/LW.11. 1. 28

AERO ENGINES

We think all the steel control parts on aero engines should be cadmium plated, standard as soon as possible. We find that engines in service look very bad due to rusting of these parts.

We also wish to have the steel diffuser rings in the superchargers cadmium plated on our experimental blowers as soon as possible.

Rg.{Mr Rowledge}
  
  


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