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).
Cause of destruction of platinum contacts at low speed.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61b\1\ scan0007 | |
| Date | 18th September 1926 | |
| Contd½ -2- R4/M18.9.26. whether the destruction of the platinums is at the high speed or low speed. I anticipate at the moment it is at the low speed, i.e. slow break large current at the time of break. R.{Sir Henry Royce} | ||