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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 create a temporary fixture for a destructive test on a new B.III stabilising bumper bar.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 119\1\  scan0078
Date  23th February 1938
  
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To HPS.{Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie}

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Les.6/AP.23.2.38

B.III. NEW BUMPER CHASSIS.

Will you please make a temporary fixture so that we can test the latest B.II. stabilising bumper bar on the front of this chassis. Although this type of bumper is now running on o.B.IV. in France, we want to test one bumper to destruction.

Rm{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}/Les.{Ivan A. Leslie}
  
  


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