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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).
Recommendation to add friction to a balance lever with a handwritten note about its implementation on pendulum levers.

Identifier  Morton\M3.4\  img022
Date  1st September 1924
  
contd :- -3- Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}5/LMO.9.24.
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considerable variation can come in.

We also recommend adding friction to the top support
of the links holding the balance lever. Tests are in hand
to prove how much this should be.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

[Handwritten]
This was successfully introduced on proof brake Pendulum levers
  
  


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