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Request to examine a failed coil from a Bentley car by dismantling it.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 164\5\  img253
Date  22th October 1936
  
Rm. {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} 86017 BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer} 5/G.22.10.36.

WST Have you seen this coil? Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer}

Referring to the coil which failed on —
the Bentley car referred to in Hs {Lord Ernest Hives - Chair} /GWH {George W. Hancock - Head Chateauroux} /IMW {Ivan M. Waller - Head of Chateauroux} /I/JAB.10.10.36
would you kindly let me have the coil so that we can
dismantle it, by uncoiling until we find the fault.

By BY. {R.W. Bailey - Chief Engineer}
  
  
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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