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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).
Instructions sheet detailing the cause of an overheated dynamo.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 70\3\  scan0236
Date  9th April 1926
  
RR 238 (150 BKS.) (SH57.29-6-20.) MP 224358
X 8783.
ROLLS-ROYCE LTD.
INSTRUCTIONS.
April. 9th. 1926.
To EFC
Order No. PC.104.
Customer's No. X8660
Complaint Dynamo
T.P. 55 off Chassis 1-LC
This is definitely a case of the dynamo having become overheated, and throwing the solder from the connections to the commutator.
The machine has the 120° control brush setting of the late standard, and high output, as a result of this setting, appears to have been the cause of overheating.
Signed C.A.P.
This Sheet must be filed on completion of the work.
  
  


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