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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).
Querying inconsistencies in daily reports regarding car mileage and an engine stoppage.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 92\3\  scan0044
Date  28th October 1936
  
M.J. Let me look through these daily reports? Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

S/W
To Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer} from Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
re 35-EX. x300a
Sg{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}11/E28.10.36

The daily reports seem to be coming in in a curious way. The report dated the 22nd arrived on the 26th and the ones for the 17th, 21st and 24th arrived to-day, but apart from this there is a gap between the 17th and the 21st and between the 22nd and the 24th but the car evidently did mileage.

The mileages also seem to jump about in an extraordinary way as the total for the 21st is given as 2356 and the total on the 22nd as 2847 which indicated nearly 500 in one day, which we know must be wrong.

I have put the report of the 22nd amongst my papers to speak to you about as I wanted to know what you made of the statement that the engine stopped when there was a temperature of 87.

Sg.{Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
  
  


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