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Instructions for fitting two types of steering rollers to a rig steering box for testing.


Identifier  ExFiles\Box 159\6\  scan0009
Date  5th February 1937
  
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To HPS. {Horace Percy Smith - Experimental Factory Mgr} from Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}
Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer} 8/AP.5.2.37.

RIG STEERING BOX.

Will you please fit to the rig steering box the following steering rollers in the order mentioned -

(1) Standard Phantom III. steering roller but with inner races bored out to suit the plain pin of the rig box.

(2) 25/30 Steering roller produced by Messrs Ransome & Marles and which has a soft skin on the ground surfaces. To be tested to determine amount of wear. The inner races should be ground out to suit pin.

Rm {William Robotham - Chief Engineer} /FJH. {Fred J. Hardy - Chief Dev. Engineer}
  
  
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