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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 on the fitting of rear hydraulic shock absorbers, detailing an installation issue due to a body building mistake.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 55\3\  Scan019
Date  18th March 1914 guessed
  
X.235. HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBERS. - R.R. design. fitted at rear only.
Origin R12/B14213.
For Experimental report see Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}/EH11/L24713.
Supervision Sheet F3719.
These have had to be fitted somewhat differently to the method first proposed owing to a mistake of Holmes & Co. in building the rear of the body.

Handwritten text:
Extract from Wor{Arthur Wormald - General Works Manager}/mor5/L16214
Fitted to 4 b a
  
  


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