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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).
Request to dismantle and inspect a steering column and box due to a bad knock, suspecting a broken ball in the cam follower.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\2\  scan0343
Date  16th May 1938
  
200a -

To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr}

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}18/JH.16.5.38.

6.B.4.

Will you please have the steering column and box removed, dismantled and inspected, there is a very bad knock coming from the box and we suspect a broken ball in the cam follower.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/FD.{Frank Dodd - Bodies}
  
  


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