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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).
Complaints from fuel suppliers regarding insufficient time for testing new aero engine fuel specifications.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 27a\4\  Scan286
Date  15th December 1933
  
HS.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}
c.EP{G. Eric Platford - Chief Quality Engineer}
c.ROY.{Sir Henry Royce}
Y1-82.

BY/EM5/J.15.12.33.
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Aero Engine Fuel.
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We are informed by the A.I.D. that the
various fuel suppliers are complaining strongly to the
Air Ministry that we are not allowing them sufficient
time when we place our orders to permit them to carry
out the necessary tests demanded by the new specifica-
tions.

These new fuels are produced and tested in
batches and when once the batch is tested and passed, we
can of course draw on same at short notice, but we are
informed that it takes at least a week to test each new
batch of fuel.

Perhaps therefore, some arrangements can be
made whereby the requisite length of time can be allowed
to the fuel suppliers for the necessary test of fuel for
our purposes.

Elh
BY/EM
  
  


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