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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).
Safety memo regarding exhaust gas blowback in No. 5 Test Bed (Spectre) and a request for a milk can.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 143\1\  scan0061
Date  13th March 1935
  
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To EJJ/JV.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}4/KW.13.3.35.

Safety First.

No. 5 Test Bed (SpectreCodename for Phantom III).

There is a considerable amount of gas blowing back into the test house from the exhaust box on the outside wall. Will you please arrange to have the exhaust carried through a pipe, well clear of the petrol tanks.

Will you please order immediately a 1-gallon milk can for this Test House.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/L.H.Swindall.
  
  


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