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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 recommending the Packard scheme using rubber for wishbone suspensions as an alternative to threaded shackles.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 174\2\  img028
Date  12th March 1937
  
Form No. 6.
WESTERN UNION
(THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY)
CABLEGRAM
1820
TELEPHONE MIDLAND 1711
ANGLO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH Co., LD. CANADIAN NATIONAL TELEGRAPHS.
RECEIVED AT 1, BROAD STREET CHAMBERS, BIRMINGHAM, 1. (Tel. No. Midland, 1711.)
1937 MAR 12 AM 7 3[?]
BM 53 PITTSBURGH PA{Mr Paterson} 44 11
NLT ROYCAR
DERBY
THREADED SHACKLES STILL NOT ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY PRESENT AMERICAN TREND ON WISHBONE SUSPENSIONS IS TO FIT RUBBER TO ELIMINATE NOISE PACKARD SCHEME ONLY PRODUCTION LAYOUT FULLY TESTED WITH RUBBER IT HAS EXCELLENT SERVICE RECORD RECOMMEND PROCEED PACKARD SCHEME AS ALTERNATIVE
ELLIOTT ROBOTHAM
[Stamp: 12 MAR 1937]
[Stamp: 8 45]
  
  


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