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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).
Requesting the production of a 5-fuse distribution board for Wraith Experimental cars.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 166\8\  img026
Date  5th January 1938
  
c. Fm/RC.{R. Childs}

6067.

BY/RD.1/E.5.1.38.

5 FUSE DISTRIBUTION BOARD - D.CD.70 & D.CD.266.

Will you please put in hand for Wraith Experimental cars, excluding the first six which have a temporary distribution board on them, a Distribution Board to LOP. DW.536.

This is a 5 fuse distribution board with open type fuses.

Blueprints of the new parts are attached herewith as follows :-

DW.429 - Distribution Board Base.
DW.430 - Cover.
DW.431 - Fuse Clip.
DW.432 - Holder - Spare Fuse Wire.
DW.433 - Clip - Distribution Board Cover.
DW.434 - Terminal Bolt.
DW.435 - Nut.
DW.538 - Clamp.
DW.539 - Connecting Plate.
DW.540 - Connecting Link.

We attach herewith an extra blueprint of DW.429 & 430 Base & Cover for despatch to Messrs. Lucas who will undertake the manufacture of these mouldings.

Will you please urge this job along as Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} is already complaining about the inaccessibility of the mockup scheme on the first Wraiths.

One set of prints attached to HPS{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}/RH{R. Hollingworth}'s copy and one set attached to RHC{R. H. Coverley - Production Engineer}/CAN's copy together with the tracings.

BY/RD
  
  


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