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Report of a broken piston in a car and a request for the cause.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 83\1\  scan0455
Date  21th April 1937
  
S/W {Sales / Derby Works}

To Gry. {Shadwell Grylls} from Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} re 6-B-IV. Sg {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD} 17/E21.4.37
Copy to Hs. {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}

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I see from a report of the 15th that the car suffered from a broken piston.

I shall be interested to hear in due course what is considered to be the cause of this.

So far as I can see from the specification of points being tested on this car, there is nothing special about the pistons.

Sg. {Arthur F. Sidgreaves - MD}
  
  
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).


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