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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).
Summary of tests on a modified matrix, concluding the original design should be strengthened to withstand high oil pressures.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 131\1\  scan0136
Date  22th August 1935
  
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Hs{Lord Ernest Hives - Chair}/Swdl.{Len H. Swindell}2/KW.22.8.35.

Summarising these tests, the reduced back pressure with the modified matrix does not justify such a loss in cooling efficiency and that the original type of matrix should be strengthened up to withstand high oil pressures when starting from cold.

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


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