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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).
Extract from a letter by T.H. Maddocks detailing a broken luggage grid hinge and poor engine running on magneto.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 67\2\  scan0021
Date  9th March 1920
  
R.R. 235 B 20(T) (S.F. 674. 22-5 19) G.{Mr Griffiths - Chief Accountant / Mr Gnapp} 2376.

X.3507.

(Filed 9-3-20)

X.3743. - 2EX. Chassis. Extract from letter of T.H. Maddocks.

X.3507. I noticed to-day that one of the hinge jaws of the luggage grid has broken.

[Hand-drawn diagram of a broken hinge]
Broken here
Bracket in frame.

X.3743b.
X.3129.
X.2762.
The slow running on magneto is not very good to-day but is good on battery ignition.
  
  


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