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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).
Note discussing tappet scuffing issues and comparing them to problems on the Wraith model.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 116\1\  scan0138
Date  1st September 1937 guessed
  
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Whilst here Mr. Swain mentioned that they were having trouble with scuffing of bottom tappets & we told them how we had got over the trouble on Wraith, their tappet mechanism being of similar design to Wraith
Attached are prints, data sheets & photographs & parts brought to Works for our examination
R.{Sir Henry Royce} Matthews.
  
  


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