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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).
Continued discussion on improving shutter controls, proposing thermostatically controlled shutters.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 15\7\  Scan109
Date  1st May 1929 guessed
  
contd :- -2-
as we have had no information to the contrary since sending our wire.

Perhaps you will say if this meets with R's approval.

We do not know whether you have any scheme in hand for improving the shutter control, which we are depressed to observe remains in its original invisible position on N.sch. 2836. The one possibility of getting rid of this appears to go for the thermostatically controlled shutters which we think may be inevitable on the S.S.

Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Rm.{William Robotham - Chief Engineer}
  
  


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