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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).
Travel issues in the US and a suggestion regarding Bentley valve spring failures.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\2\  img217
Date  27th February 1934 guessed
  
The weather has been exceedingly bad and the whole Country from Chicago to the Coast is under snow with temperatures below zero.

The axle has been getting steadily worse and I began to fear that I would pack up before I reached New York, however subsequent events solved that problem.

I do think that on the Bentley, where we can expect to have valve spring failures, we should arrange that the valve cannot drop into the cylinder as it is such
  
  


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