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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).
Description of how oil pressure in a control system varies the load on shock dampers via a metal bellows.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 151\2\  scan0205
Date  5th March 1934
  
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Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /Les.14/KW.5.3.34.

Oil pressure in the control system varies the load of the dampers by compressing a metal bellows. The movement of the bellows puts more load on the shock dampers by increasing the load on the shock damper valve.

The one shock damper valve increases the load on both sides of the damper.

Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /I.A.Leslie.
  
  


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