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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).
Page from a memo defending a critical stance towards experimental testing.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 20\11\  Scan135
Date  8th February 1924 guessed
  
contd:-
-3-
experimental testing.

I feel very disappointed that when I am given the position of a critic that when my criticism is not of an optimistic nature, I should be accused of obstruction.

The fact that we foresee numbers of difficulties does not in any way retard progress with the Experimental work, in fact, it makes us work harder.

Hs.{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

[Faint upside-down watermark text]: MADE AT CROXLEY 1804
  
  


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