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Complaining about a lack of response regarding potential engine failures and a decline in the spirit of the Experimental Department.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 20\11\  Scan132
Date  7th January 1924
  
To Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} from CJ. SECRET. X180

CJ12/E7.1.24.

X.9770 X.180 X.788.

I do not understand why I have had no reply to my memo. asking what parts of the new engine are likely to fail.

It seems to me that in the Expl: Dept: the spirit, which years ago enabled the Works to turn out a special engine for the 2,000 miles trial of the R.A.C. in a very short time, has been replaced by one which endeavours to lay down that nothing new can be done except over a very prolonged period.

EJ.
  
  
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).


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