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Letter discussing engine spark plug endurance testing and a planned visit.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 79\1\  scan0131
Date  1st September 1918
  
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air, then the copper electrodes would stand up because
of them not getting so hot.

If we could get a plug which would run our
engines on the bench and be suitable for work in the
air, these plugs would only have to run the standard
24 hours endurance test; they would then be sent away
on an engine.

As regards your visit to Derby, if you will
let us know 3 or 4 days before you wish to come over,
we will endeavour to have an engine ready.

Yours faithfully,

R.R. 235a (500 T.) (S.D. 408. 26-4-17.) Bm. 2/156/13.
  
  
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).


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