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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).
Cablegram from Indianapolis reporting the results of three bearing tests.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 173\2\  img109
Date  24th February 1934
  
FORM No. 6.
WESTERN UNION
(THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY)
CABLEGRAM
BIRMINGHAM,
BROAD ST.{Capt. P. R. Strong} CHAMBERS
TELEPHONE,
CENTRAL 2854.
ANGLO-AMERICAN TELEGRAPH Co., Ld. CANADIAN NATIONAL TELEGRAPHS

CRREM 49 INDIANAPOLIS IND 54 23RD
NLT HIVES HOYCAH DERBY

-- HIVES --
MESSRS ROLLS ROYCE LD
NIGHTINGALE RD
DERBY

SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED THREE FURTHER TESTS STOP FIRST TEST SIXTY FORTY GROVED BEARINGS FORTY MINUTES DURATION THIRTY FIVE HUNDRED REVOLUTIONS STOP SECOND TEST SEVENTY THIRTY SIMILAR PERIOD STOP LAST ROUNDUP SEVENTY THIRTY GROOVED BEARINGS TWENTY MINUTES FORTY TWO HUNDRED FIFTY REVOLUTION STOP BEARINGS SATISFACTORY ANTICIPATE LEAVING THURSDAY NEXT PROCEEDING DETROIT

COVERLEY
  
  


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