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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).
American method of producing Strip type whitemetal bearings.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 114\2\  scan0116
Date  23th February 1935 guessed
  
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The reason the Americans are able to produce Strip type whitemetal bearings is that before folding the whitemetal is pre-heated so that adhesion is not affected, but this method cannot be employed in the case of Lead Bronze.

We attach extracts of reports received from the A.C. Spark Plug Co., Flint, Mich. U.S.A, Cleveland Graphite Bronze Co., Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A. and the Allison Engineering Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
  
  


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