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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).
Report quoting feedback on a clutch test, noting it as an improvement but also slow to stop.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 103\1\  scan0153
Date  29th January 1935
  
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Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
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C6/C29.1.35
Re 21-G-IV...Clutch.

The following is copy of JLE{J. Lee Evans - Chassis Test Manager}'s report regarding this:-

"I tried this clutch with Er. and consider it is a definite improvement and if we can rely on the production clutches being up to this standard, after the mileage this car has done, I feel that the clutch troubles will be reduced to a minimum.

There is one point, and that is that this clutch is rather on the slow side in stopping."

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