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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).
Testing bronze alloys and the placement of wire loops on a tank or end plate for strength.

Identifier  WestWitteringFiles\C\January1919\  Scan1
Date  24th January 1919 guessed
  
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expansion as the brass soldered matrix. We think phosphor bronze or silicon bronze should be tested.

[Handwritten note]: BIGH & MAH

Your impression of the loop idea is correct.

The wire, however, should go round the tank or end plate, or all the loops should be where the strength is most needed that is, at the bottom outside corners.

[Stamp over 'most needed']: RECEIVED

R.{Sir Henry Royce}

(SIGNED) F.H.R.

[Partial stamp bottom right]: ...EX...
  
  


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